What happened on 24 May?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1941 Born: Bob Dylan American songwriter who reshaped popular music and won the 2016 Nobel in Literature.
2. 1819 Born: Queen Victoria Longest-reigning British monarch before Elizabeth II; gave her name to an age.
3. 1844 Morse telegraph Samuel Morse's electrical telegraph, with code, transforms long-distance communication from days to seconds.
4. 1738 John Wesley begins the Methodist movement Wesley's Aldersgate conversion launches the evangelical revival that grows into Methodism, reshaping Protestantism in Britain and America.
5. 1923 The dump-arms order ends the Irish Civil War Beaten in the field, the anti-Treaty IRA is ordered to dump its arms rather than surrender them — no negotiations, no ceremony, just an end. The Free State survives; the Treaty spl
6. 1956 First Eurovision Song Contest Inaugural Eurovision held in Lugano, Switzerland.
7. 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opens First steel-wire suspension bridge; connects Manhattan to Brooklyn over the East River.
8. 1689 The Toleration Act Protestant Dissenters win the legal right to worship freely — the price William's Dutch Calvinism and the Whigs' coalition demand. Catholics and Unitarians are left out, but the pr
9. 1822 Battle of Pichincha Sucre's victory secures the independence of Quito (Ecuador).