Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam on August - 29.   

1686  On August - 29 wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer   

1708  Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians on this day in history.   

1708  English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia on this day in history.   

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

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

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  England & France meet in war on August - 29.   

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.   

1758  New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation on August - 29.   

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

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.   

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

1776  Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester on August - 29.   

1780  On this day in history jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1810  On this day in history over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)   

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

1815  On August - 29 anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)   

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 August - 29.   

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

1842  Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war on this day in history.   

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) on this day in history.   

1844  On August - 29 the first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

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

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

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

1476  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

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  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.   

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

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.   

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  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.