Historical Events In August - 29

1664  Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

1686  On August - 29 wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer   

1708  On August - 29 haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians   

1708  On August - 29 english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia   

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.   

1742  Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist on August - 29.   

1756  On this day in history prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada   

1756  On August - 29 england & France meet in war   

1758  First indian reservation established on this day in history.   

1758  On this day in history new Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation   

1758  On August - 29 gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1773  On August - 29 raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)   

1776  On this day in history americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester   

1780  On August - 29 jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)   

1786  On August - 29 shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass   

1792  At least 900 die when the British warship Royal George sinks at Spithead while repairs are being carried out just below the waterline on this day in history.   

1792  On August - 29 english warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900   

1793  On August - 29 slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed   

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1808  On August - 29 hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer   

1809  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) on August - 29.   

1810  Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters) on August - 29.   

1811  On this day in history henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA   

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) on August - 29.   

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

1825  On this day in history portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.   

1831  Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer on this day in history.   

1842  On August - 29 treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain   

1842  Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war on August - 29.   

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) on August - 29.   

1844  The first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win on August - 29.   

1844  On this day in history 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

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1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.   

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.   

1561  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

1609  On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

1619  On this day in history birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron   

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.   

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20