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May 29th, 363
Roman Empire:
363 - Battle of Ctesiphon; Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
Wikipedia Image: Relief from a 3rd-century sarcophagus depicting a battle between Romans and Germanic warriors; the central figure is perhaps the emperor Hostilian / Depiction of the Menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome. ● Achaemenid Persian Empire: was an Iranian empire in Western Asia, founded in the 6th century by Cyrus the Great who overthrew the Median confederation. ● Persian Archers at Darius' palace at Susa. Exhibited in Pergamon Museum / Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin ● Bas relief nagsh-e-rostam al ● Persian version of a stone relief (from Persepolis) ● Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa, Louvre.
May 29th, 1108
Reconquista: Battle of Uclés; Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
Wikipedia Painting: Reconquista; The Capitulation of Granada by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz.
May 29th, 1414
Catholic Ecumenical Councils:
1414 - Council of Constance.
Wikipedia Photo: Catholic Ecumenical Councils include 21 councils over a period of 1700 years. (While definitions changed throughout history, in today's Roman Catholic understanding Ecumenical Councils are assemblies of Patriarchs, Cardinals, residing Bishops, Abbots, male heads of religious orders and other juridical persons, nominated by the Roman Pontiff.) They meet to discuss matters of faith and Church discipline.
May 29th, 1453
Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire):
1453 - Fall of Constantinople; Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Wikipedia Image: Ottoman Empire Maximal extent with the vassal states of the Ottoman Empire in AD 1590s;
Battle of Kosovo (1389); Fall of Constantinople (1453); Sultan Mehmed I Ottoman miniature, 1413-1421; Fall of Constantinople (1453); Siege of Rhodes (1522); Battle of Kosovo (1389); Battle of Mohács (1526).
The Baptism of Constantine painted by Raphael's pupils (1520–1524, fresco, Vatican City, Apostolic Palace); Mural of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 19th century, Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria; Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna; The Greek fire was first used by the Byzantine Navy during the Byzantine-Arab Wars (from the Madrid Skylitzes, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid); Alexios I, founder of the Komnenos dynasty.
Photo: Byzantine Empire is the great church of Hagia Sophia (Church of the Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople (562).
May 29th, 1660
English Civil War:
1660 - English Restoration; Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Wikipedia Painting: English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers);
John Milton publishes Areopagitica;
Battle of Naseby, victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army;
Battle of Marston Moor, 1644;
"Cromwell at Dunbar", by Andrew Carrick Gow; Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I, painted by Van Dyck;
"And when did you last see your father?" by William Frederick Yeames.
May 29th, 1765
Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses .
Wikipedia Painting: Patrick Henry.
May 29th, 1780
American Revolutionary War:
1780 - Battle of Waxhaws; the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
● Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, by Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1842).
May 29th, 1790
1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
Wikipedia Painting: Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy
May 29th, 1861
Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
Wikipedia Photo: Hong Kong Island and skyline, famous sights such as "The Peak", Ocean Park, many historical sites and mountain ranges
May 29th, 1864
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
Wikipedia Painting: Maximilian I of Mexico; Portrait as Emperor of Mexico, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1864.
May 29th, 1914
World War I:
1914 - Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrencewith the loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 - Battle of Sardarapat; Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army.
Wikipedia Photo: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes. National Archives and Records Administration.
May 29th, 1919
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.
Wikipedia Picture: Albert Einstein Nobel Prize in Physics; Einstein at the age of three in 1882; The mathematician, physicist 1947; Einstein's theory of special relativity; Albert and Elsa Einstein in 1933; Conrad Habicht, Olympia Academy founders, Maurice Solovine and Einstein.
May 29th, 1932
World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C. in the "Bonus Army" to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
Wikipedia Photo: Bonus Army camp in Washington D.C.
May 29th, 1939
World War II:
1939 - Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 - The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
1945 - First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
Marseille, France at night.
May 29th, 1942
Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
Wikipedia Image: Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) musical in a 1954 Christmas family classic.
May 29th, 1953
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
Wikipedia Photo: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquest of Everest.
May 29th, 1990
The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
Wikipedia Photo: Boris Yeltsin Chiaki Tsukumo, AFP / Getty Image ● Remembering Boris Yeltsin © RIA Novosti, Sergey Guneev.
May 29th, 1999
Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
Wikipedia Photo: International Space Station, NASA.
May 29th, 2004
World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
Wikipedia Photo: World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., credit Defense.gov ● My Nikon & I.
May 29th, 2012
Earthquake:
2012 - Northern Italy earthquakes; A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
2008 - Iceland earthquake; A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
1970 - Ancash earthquake; causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru - more than 47,000 people are killed.
1935 - A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000.
526 - A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
Wikipedia Image: Preliminary Determination of Epicenters / Aleppo Syria; Anchorage, Alaska - March 28, 1964 Prince William Sound USA earthquake and tsunami; 8.9 Mega Earthquake Strikes Japan; Tsunami Swirls Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture March 12 2011. credit NOAA / NGDC, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USGS, National Geographics.