📅 Today in HistoryAugust 24

Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.

The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.

Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.

King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.

Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.

Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.