Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

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

1708  Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians on August - 29.   

1708  On August - 29 english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia   

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

1738  On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

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

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 this day in history.   

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.   

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

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) on this day in history.   

1776  On August - 29 americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester   

1780  On August - 29 jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)   

1786  On August - 29 shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass   

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 this day in history.   

1792  On August - 29 english warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900   

1793  On August - 29 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  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  On August - 29 over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)   

1811  On this day in history henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA   

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.   

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on August - 29.   

1831  On August - 29 michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer   

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 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  On August - 29 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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.   

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

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 August - 29.   

1395  On August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.   

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.