On this day in history: 24th January: 41 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by Praetorian Guards. 817 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV 1076 - Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII 1118 - Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary 1534 - Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy 1568 - Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire 1568 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1613 - Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized 1616 - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver 1634 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor 1644 - Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War 1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament 1722 - Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system 1742 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor 1839 - Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia. 1859 - Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler. 1862 - Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza. Bucharest proclaimed its capital. 1878 - Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. 1892 - Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries 1899 - Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms 1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey OSullivan 1900 - Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1901 - Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children 1908 - Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts 1915 - German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland 1916 - The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons 1924 - Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 - Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad; it was changed back in 1991 1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island 1925 - Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden 1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France 1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile 1939 - Spanish government moves to Figueras 1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia 1943 - Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death 1943 - Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944 - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy 1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg 1948 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-Peoples party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD) 1951 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns 1952 - Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
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