On This Day in History for October 29
Events in History
- 539 BC King Cyrus "the Great" of Persia marches into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home
- 1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily
- 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris
- 1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
- 1552 Tsar Ivan IV returns to Moscow after conquering the Khanate of Kazan in the Siege of Kazan
- 1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
- 1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England
- 1665 Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila]: Portuguese defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo / Nvita a Nkanga
- More Events in History
Abraham Kuyper
Franz von Papen
Joseph Goebbels
Carl Djerassi
Ellen Johnson-SirleafWeddings in History
- 437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
- 2004 "Jackass" member Chris Pontius (30) weds Claire Nolan in Malibu
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Walter Raleigh
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert
Nathan Bedford Forrest
George McClellan
Joseph PulitzerOctober in History
Faraday, the Blacksmith's Boy Who Changed the World
On this day, Michael Faraday, known to science as the Father of Electricity, demonstrated his dynamo invention. It was to have huge, far-reaching consequences.
October 28, 1831
'Splendid Achievement' becomes the 'Road To Hell'
London's orbital road, the M25 was hailed as a splendid achievement by PM Margaret Thatcher when she opened it on this day. But it soon developed another nickname...
October 29, 1986
Surrender at Yorktown
'Surrender of Lord Cornwallis' by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender which ended the American Revolutionary War
October 29, 1781
A Salute to the Military Genius, Napoleon Bonaparte
A 15-year-old boy entered a soldiers’ training school in Paris on this day. He was to become the military genius and great commander known as Napoléon Bonaparte.
October 30, 1784