Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 2026Pharaoh of Egypt from 1479 to 1425 BC
Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 2026Ancient city in northwest Asia Minor
Consecration of Pope Nicholas I following the death of Pope Benedict III earlier that month.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 0858Head of the Catholic Church from 858 to 867
Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded. His nephew al-Radi suceeds him as caliph.📜 ISLAMIC FESTIVALS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 0934Caliphs of the Abbasid Caliphate
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 1704British colonies forming the United States
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 1793French political theorist (1743–1793)
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 1800US Congress research library
The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9📜 HISTORY🌍 INDIA🗓️ 24 April 1837Fire in British India
Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 1877Eleventh and penultimate conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 1885One who is highly proficient with firearms
Joshua Slocum📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 189519th-century Canadian-American seaman; first to circumnavigate the world solo
The Franck–Hertz experiment📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 19141914 confirmation of the atom's quantum nature
The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 24 April 1915Start of Armenian genocide
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 1916Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 19181914–1918 global conflict
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 1922Radiotelegraphic communications network within the British Empire in the 20th century