Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  On this day in history adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam   

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

1708  On this day in history haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians   

1708  On August - 29 english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia   

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

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

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

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

1756  On this day in history 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  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

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

1776  Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester on this day in history.   

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

1786  On this day in history shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass   

1792  On August - 29 at least 900 die when the British warship Royal George sinks at Spithead while repairs are being carried out just below the waterline.   

1792  English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 on August - 29.   

1793  On this day in history slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed   

1799  On August - 29 pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71   

1808  On this day in history hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer   

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

1810  On August - 29 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  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain   

1842  On this day in history gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war   

1842  On this day in history alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

1844  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.   

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.   

1609  On August - 29 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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.   

1093  On this day in history death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

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

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.   

1442  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

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 this day in history.