What happend on 29th July

28.07
30.07
1899

The First Hague Convention is signed.

1864

American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.

1858

United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.

1851

Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.

1848

Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt

1848

"Deşteaptă-te, române!" ("Wake up, O, Romania!", Romania's national anthem) is first sung in Râmnicu Vâlcea during the 1848 Revolution.

1793

John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.

1693

War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen

1588

Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France.

1567

James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.