Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  On August - 29 adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam   

1686  On this day in history wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer   

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

1708  On August - 29 english troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia   

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

1738  On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1742  Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist on August - 29.   

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  First indian reservation established on August - 29.   

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

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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  Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  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  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 this day in history.   

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

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.   

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on August - 29.   

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  On August - 29 gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war   

1842  On August - 29 alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

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  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.   

1476  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

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

1609  On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

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  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

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

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

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  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  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20