A Daily Dose of History (24 Nov 2024) Today's historical events:

• Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
• Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
• Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
• An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
• Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
• Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
• Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
• Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
• The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
• Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
• Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
• American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
• Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

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