Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  On August - 29 adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam   

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer on this day in history.   

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

1708  On this day in history english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia   

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

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1742  On this day in history edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist   

1756  Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada on August - 29.   

1756  England & France meet in war on this day in history.   

1758  On August - 29 first indian reservation established   

1758  On August - 29 new Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1769  On this day in history edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1773  On this day in history raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)   

1776  On August - 29 americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester   

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) on August - 29.   

1786  Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

1792  On this day in history english warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900   

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

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

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer on August - 29.   

1809  On this day in history oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)   

1810  Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters) on this day in history.   

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA on August - 29.   

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer   

1842  Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain on this day in history.   

1842  On August - 29 gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war   

1842  On August - 29 alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

1844  On this day in history the first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

1844  1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win on August - 29.   

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1387  On August - 29 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 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  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.   

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.   

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.   

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

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

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  On August - 29 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  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.   

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

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.