Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

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

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer on August - 29.   

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

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  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.   

1742  On August - 29 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  England & France meet in war on August - 29.   

1758  First indian reservation established on this day in history.   

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

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

1769  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 on this day in history.   

1793  On August - 29 slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed   

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer on August - 29.   

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

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 August - 29.   

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) on August - 29.   

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

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

1842  Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war on this day in history.   

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

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

1844  On this day in history 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

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1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

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 August - 29.   

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

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 August - 29.   

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

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  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.   

1123  On August - 29 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  On August - 29 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