Events & Holidays In August - 29

Nut Spas (Russia)

Slovak National Uprising Day (Slovakia)

1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  On this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.   

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

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.   

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

1628  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.   

0886  On this day in history basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

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

1123  On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.   

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20