Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

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

1686  On August - 29 wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer   

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

1708  English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia on this day in history.   

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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  Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada on August - 29.   

1756  On August - 29 england & France meet in war   

1758  On August - 29 first indian reservation established   

1758  New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation on August - 29.   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on August - 29.   

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 August - 29 americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester   

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) on August - 29.   

1786  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1809  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) on this day in history.   

1810  On August - 29 over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)   

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

1815  On this day in history anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)   

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  On August - 29 treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain   

1842  On this day in history gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war   

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) on this day in history.   

1844  The first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win on this day in history.   

1844  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

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 this day in history.   

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

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  On this day in history 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