On This Day: July 24th

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.

Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.

French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.

Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.

Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.

Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.

Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.

Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.

Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.

The Ostrogoths abandoned the Siege of Ariminum upon the arrival of the larger than expected Byzantine fleet.