Browse Historical Events by Day: What Happened on February 24th?

Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, in the Church of St. Donatian in Bruges.

Battle of Buçaco: Portuguese forces defeat the Castilians during the 14th-century Portuguese Crisis.

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sets foot in Florida, the first known European arrival in what is now the United States.

Battle of Pavia: Spanish and Imperial forces defeat the French, capturing King Francis I of France during the Italian Wars.

Université de Reims is founded in France by a bull of Pope Gregory XIII.

Pope Gregory XIII issues the papal bull "Inter gravissimas," reforming the calendar and introducing the Gregorian calendar.

The United States Supreme Court establishes its power of judicial review in the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison.

John Quincy Adams begins arguments in Amistad case - The U.S. Supreme Court case of the 53 Africans captured in the Spanish ship Amistad opens and John Quincy Adams begins his oral arguments for the defense., speaking for four hours and a half. More