📅 Today in HistoryFebruary 24

King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.

The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.

King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.

Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.

With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.

The last battle of the Cudgel War takes place on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.

L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.

Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.