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

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1091

  Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
• 1386

  Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
• 1429

  Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
• 1483

  Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
• 1521

  Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon capture the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege.
• 1770

  James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1781

  American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
• 1832

  Évariste Galois is released from prison.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
• 1862

  American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
• 1864

  Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
• 1882

  The “Elektromote”, forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
• 1903

  A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
• 1910

  The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People’s Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
• 1916

  World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• 1916

  Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
• 1944

  World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo’s most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
• 1945

  World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
• 1945

  World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
• 1945

  World War II: The sclass- Captain HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
• 1945

  World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
• 1945

  The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
• 1945

  The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
• 1946

  The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• 1946

  Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
• 1951

  Tibetan delegates to the Central People’s Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• 1953

  The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• 1965

  Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
• 1967

  After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
• 1968

  The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

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