August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. It is also the 1st day of Thoth - which is the 1st day of the Egyptian Horoscope. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
August 29 - Events.
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1189- Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian stat ...
1505 - Events.
March 5 - Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon
Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
June 27 - Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command
King Alexander_of_Poland signed "Nihil_novi" act - Poland became Nobles' Democracy
Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfd ...
1558 - Events.
January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England
July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France
November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.
Tobacco comes to Fr ...
1526 in science
1526 - Events.
January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.
May 22 - Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.
July 24 - Milan is captured by the Spanish.
August 29 - Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I ...
1506 - Events.
January 21 - Pope Julius II founds the Swiss Guard
Second outbreak of the sweating sickness in England
Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.
The statue Laocoön and his Sons is discovered in Rome.
1506 - Births.
February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
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She was born in Brussels to Philip I of Castile ("the Handsome") and Juana of Castile ("the Mad"). Her paternal grandparents were Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and his first wife Mary of Burgundy. Her maternal grandparents were Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.
Maria was a younger sister of Eleonore of Austria, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Isabella of Burgundy and Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. She w ...
Before Maria closed her first year of life, she was promised as a wife to the first son to be born to Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary and his fourth wife Anne de Foix. This son was born in 1506 and was to become Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia.
They were married on 13 January 1522 in Budapest. Their joint portrait still exists. Both his robes and her alleged wedding dress are on display at the National Museum of Hungary.
Maria served as Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia for four years and seven months. On 29 August 1526, ...
