Historical Events on August 24

1188 battle of the First Hundred Years War

Battle involving Poland against Galycia-Volhynia in 1245

Alliance treaty (1416)

Battle of the Polish-Ottoman War in 1675

Engagement of the Great Northern war (1719)

1760 operation against Montreal's outer defences in the French and Indian War

1781 battle in Indiana, USA

1789 naval battle between the Swedish Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy

Burning of Washington — British naval attack on the United States during the War of 1812

1816 treaty between the United States and representatives of the Council of Three Fires

1929 Hebron massacre — Massacre of Jewish residents of Hebron by Arabs residents in 1929 Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine

1945 battle during the Chinese Civil War

1997 Belgian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race

Air Transat Flight 236 — 2001 aviation incident involving an Air Transat Airbus A330 over the North Atlantic Ocean

2003 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2003

Restoring Courage tour

2011 alleged terror plot in Boryspil, Ukraine

6.1 or 6.2 magnitude earthquake on 24 August 2016 in the central parts of Italy

2016 earthquake in Myanmar