User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 24
August 24[edit]
- 49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.
- 410 - The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
- 1511 - Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.
- 1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- 1821 - The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1914 - World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
- 1944 - World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
- 1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.