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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Gratian: Young Co-Augustus in Roman History (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)

7 min • 24 augusti 2024

A Daily Dose of History (24 Aug 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
  • The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
  • Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
  • King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
  • Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
  • The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
  • The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
  • Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
  • The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

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