Historical Events on October 24

Battle fought in Essex in 1016

1081 battle in present-day Albania

Series of acts of the Polish–Lithuanian union

Treaty between France and James Francis Edward Stuart

1746 battle in India during the First Carnatic War

1793 minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars

Minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought between a British Royal Navy frigate and two ships of the Batavian Navy

Second Battle of Novi (1799)

Treaty of Gulistan — truce agreement signed on October 24, 1813, between the Russian Empire and the Khajar state

Skirmish in Latter Day Saint history

1894 battle of the First Sino-Japanese War

First major battle of the Thousand Days' War

1912 First Balkan War battle

Minor armed clash in 1921 between government and loyalist forces in Hungary

1944 naval battle fought during World War II in the Philippines between the United Stated and Japan

Battle of Chamdo — 1950 military campaign by China to retake region in Tibet

1954 Spanish Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1954

Secret 1956 agreement between France, Israel and the United Kingdom concerning the Suez Crisis

October 1956 earthquake in Nicaragua

Fatal Soviet launch pad disaster

1965 Mexican Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1965

1976 Japanese Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1976

1993 Japanese Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1993

2004 Brazilian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2004

Transfer of the body of dictator Francisco Franco from Valle de los Caídos