Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 24
May 24: Independence Day in Eritrea (1993), Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria and Macedonia
- 1487 - Impostor Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland as "King Edward VI".
- 1626 - Peter Minuit bought Manhattan in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders.
- 1822 - Ecuadorian War of Independence: Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre (pictured) secured the independence of Quito from Spain in the Battle of Pichincha.
- 1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, was opened.
- 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.