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  On this day in history haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians   

1708  English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia on August - 29.   

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

1756  On August - 29 prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada   

1756  On this day in history england & France meet in war   

1758  First indian reservation established on August - 29.   

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

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

1769  On this day in history edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) on August - 29.   

1776  Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester on August - 29.   

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 August - 29 english warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900   

1793  On this day in history slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed   

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  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  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil on this day in history.   

1831  Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer on August - 29.   

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 August - 29 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  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 this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

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  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.   

1628  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

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

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

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  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.