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The following events took place on August 29. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 708

  Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
• 1261

  Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
• 1315

  Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
• 1350

  Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
• 1475

  The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
• 1484

  Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
• 1498

  Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
• 1521

  The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
• 1526

  Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1541

  The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
• 1728

  The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
• 1756

  Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
• 1758

  The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
• 1778

  American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• 1786

  Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• 1807

  British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
• 1825

  Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
• 1831

  Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
• 1842

  Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
• 1861

  American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
• 1869

  The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• 1871

  Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
• 1885

  Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• 1895

  Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
• 1898

  The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• 1903

  The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five sclass- Borodinos, is launched.
• 1907

  The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
• 1910

  The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
• 1911

  Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
• 1914

  Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.

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