What happened on 24 August?

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

1. 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths Alaric's Visigoths sack Rome.
2. 1516 Ottoman conquest of the Levant Selim I defeats the Mamluks at Marj Dabiq, bringing Syria, Lebanon and Palestine under four centuries of Ottoman rule.
3. 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre Targeted killing of French Huguenot leaders in Paris triggers nationwide massacre; ~10,000 killed; intensifies the Wars of Religion.
4. 1215 The pope annuls the charter At John's request, Innocent III — now the king's feudal overlord — declares the charter 'null and void of all validity for ever': extorted by force, shameful and illegal. It has la
5. 1821 Mexican War of Independence ends Conventional end of Mexican War of Independence.
6. 1995 Windows 95 released Microsoft's operating system brings the graphical PC to hundreds of millions of homes, cementing its desktop dominance.
7. 2016 Colombian peace agreement The government and FARC rebels end a 52-year war, the longest-running conflict in the Americas.
8. 1814 Burning of Washington British troops burned the White House and Capitol during the War of 1812.
9. 1662 Act of Uniformity 1662 Parliament mandates use of the new Book of Common Prayer; 2,000 dissenting ministers ejected from the Church of England.