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 August - 29.   

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

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

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

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 August - 29.   

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.   

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

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

1769  On August - 29 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 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  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  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 August - 29.   

1810  Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters) on August - 29.   

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA on this day in history.   

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

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 August - 29.   

1844  On this day in history the first white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

1844  1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win on August - 29.   

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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  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

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 August - 29.   

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.   

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

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

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  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  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.