336 Historic Events for October 29
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Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
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| 490 |
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Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
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| 1321 |
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Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
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| 1463 |
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Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
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| 1507 |
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Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)
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| 1508 |
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Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
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| 1513 |
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Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne
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| 1552 |
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Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
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| 1562 |
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George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
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| 1590 |
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Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68
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| 1591 |
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Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
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| 1618 |
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Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason
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| 1656 |
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Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
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| 1682 |
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William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
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| 1709 |
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England/Netherlands sign anti-French "BarriŠretraktaat"
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| 1727 |
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Severe earthquake in New England
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| 1740 |
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James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
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| 1762 |
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Andr‚-Marie Ch‚nier, French poet (El‚gies)
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| 1783 |
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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66
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| 1787 |
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Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
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| 1790 |
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Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66
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| 1794 |
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French troops occupies Venlo
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| 1802 |
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Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95
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| 1811 |
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1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
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| 1814 |
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"Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
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