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Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

Friday, 11 July 2025

1664  Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1708  Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1708  English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1742  Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger 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 Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1756  On August - 29 england & France meet in war  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  On August - 29 first indian reservation established  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  On this day in history new Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

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

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

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.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1793  Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1809  On this day in history oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1811  On August - 29 henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

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

1842  Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger 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 Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

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

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1619  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1628  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance  Click To Send On Messenger 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 Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies  Click To Send On Messenger 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 Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1395  On August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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


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