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Historical Events In August - 29

Friday, 29 March 2024

1664  On this day in history adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1708  On this day in history haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1708  On this day in history english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1742  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1756  On this day in history england & France meet in war  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1773  On this day in history raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1776  On August - 29 americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1786  Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1792  English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1793  On August - 29 slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1808  On August - 29 hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1809  On August - 29 oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1810  On this day in history over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1811  On this day in history henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1815  On August - 29 anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1831  On this day in history michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1842  Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1842  On this day in history gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1842  On this day in history alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1844  On August - 29 the first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1844  On this day in history 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In August - 29

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1434  On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In August - 29

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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