Historical Events In August - 29

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

1686  On this day in history wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer  

1708  On August - 29 haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians  

1708  On this day in history english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia  

1712  On August - 29 gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63  

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  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  England & France meet in war on this day in history.  

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.  

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1758  New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation on this day in history.  

1758  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1776  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history english warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900  

1793  Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed on August - 29.  

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

1808  On August - 29 hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer  

1809  On August - 29 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 August - 29.  

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  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 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 August - 29 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  On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)  

1619  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron  

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.  

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

0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded  

0886  On this day in history basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies  

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)  

1123  On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)  

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

1523  On August - 29 ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35  

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20