November 24

November 24 is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

1227 – Polish Prince Leszek the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.

1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.

1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.

1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

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November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Nov. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 24, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 11.

Feasts

Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.

Saints

Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)

Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum (c. 260) or (c.824)

Martyrs Procopius and Christopher, by the sword (274)

Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305)( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the sword.

Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wall.

Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian.

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