Historical Events In August - 29

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

1686  On August - 29 wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer  

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

1708  English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia on August - 29.  

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on August - 29.  

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

1756  On August - 29 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.  

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

1758  On August - 29 gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75  

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

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) on August - 29.  

1776  On August - 29 americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester  

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

1786  On August - 29 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 August - 29 slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed  

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

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer on this day in history.  

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 August - 29.  

1811  On August - 29 henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA  

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

1821  On August - 29 horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86  

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on this day in history.  

1831  On this day in history michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer  

1842  Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain on August - 29.  

1842  Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war on August - 29.  

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

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1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.  

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.  

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.  

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.  

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on August - 29.  

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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 August - 29.  

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 this day in history.