August 29 30 or 31 AD The Beheading of John the Baptist Saints feast day. All these feast days were celebrated in Scotland for 10 centuries or more, and many documents, births, battles were dated from the feast day.

St. John the Baptist Preaching by Anton Raphael Mengs (c. 1775) May 15 1829 John, at Susquehanna River near Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (present-day Oakton) visits as a resurrected being to Joseph Smith, Jr. and Oliver Cowdery on May 15, 1829, and ordained them to the Aaronic priesthood.

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1170 Eva MacMurrough Aoife MacMurrough (1145–1188, Irish: Aoife Ní Diarmait), also known by later historians as Eva of Leinster, was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (Irish: Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, and his wife Mor O’Toole (c.1114-1191). On 29 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had requested, she married Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Christchurch Cathedral, Waterford.

1296 Robert VI the Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1253–1304) At Berwick, agrees the dower lands of his widowed step mother, Christina.

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1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.

1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.

1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

1570 Sometime in August. –Under Regent Morton, commendators were placed in the room of the abbots and priors, by which word the Scots distinguished a layman who obtained possession of an ecclesiastical benefice. To these commendators the nobles applied, and, by fair means or force, compelled them to make over and transfer to them the property of the abbacies, or at least to grant it to them in long leases for a trifling rent. Allan Stewart, commendator of the abbacy of Crossraguel, in Ayrshire, was prevailed on to visit the Earl of Cassilis, who conveyed him, partly against his will, to a lonely tower, which overhangs the sea, called the Black Vault of Denure, the ruins of which are yet visible (1827 – Tales of a Grandfather by Scott p. 273). Allan was treated kindly; but his arms and servants were removed from him, a prisoner. At length, the earl conveyed Allan as a guest into a private chamber, in which there was no furniture of any kind excepting a huge clumsy iron grate or gridiron, beneath which was a fire of charcoal. “And now, my lord abbot,” said the Earl of Cassilis, “will ye be pleased to sign these deeds?” And so saying, he laid before him leases and other papers, transferring the whole lands of the abbacy of Crossraguel to the earl himself. Refusing, he was stripped and stretched and basted with oil, as a cook bastes the joint of meat which she roasts upon a spit. Tortured, Allan signed. the earl exclaimed, “Benedicte! ye are the most obstinate man I ever saw, to oblige me to use ye thus: I never thought to have treated any one as your stubbornness has made me treat you.”

1632 John Lock born (Died 1704 October 28) Christ Church Oxford bachelor’s degree 1656, medicine 1674. Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Bacon, Locke and Newton… I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences”. Printer Andrew Millar VI (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

1660 – “An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion“. “indemnity for his enemies and oblivion for his friends.” Charles II, King of Scots.

1745 – (Bonnie) Prince Charles reached Dalnacardoch, being thus enabled by the retreat of the English army to possess [TG76-105] himself of the passes of the mountains between Badenoch and Athole.

 

1745 Aug 29th PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Marched to Dalwhinny (I. 353).

 

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1762 James Cochrane (died 29.08.1762, Judge Advocate, had married (01.1731) Cecilia Oliphant (daughter of George Oliphant of Edinburgh).

1812 Batavia, Java, capital of Dutch East Indies, surrendered to Sir Samuel Acumuty, Sometime in August. Tytler’s Britannica 269 History of Scotland.

1818 sometime this year. Opera. Carlini [Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia, 1818]. To European Catholics, Mary (Stuart Queen of Scots 1560s) was a martyr and the legitimate ruler of England. The appeal of these operas has been expressed by Professor Alexander Weatherson in the 2009 Donizetti Society Newsletter as follows (with the addition of relevant opera titles associated with the named composers): Scotland’s soil was about to be profaned by a stream of operas that bore the footprint of [Elizabeth’s] rival……without Mary Stuart, Scotland might have been left in peace….In Italy alone in the earliest decades of the nineteenth century there was a Scotch broth of operas. Wikipedia.

2005 Makes Land Fall New Orleans and Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina. Over fifty breaches in New Orleans’s hurricane surge protection are the cause of the majority of the death and destruction during Katrina on August 29, 2005. Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, headquartered in New Orleans, will participate in the Relief and evacuation. All aircraft were returning towards the Gulf of Mexico by the afternoon of August 29.

Map plotting the track and intensity of the storm according to the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. Wikipedia.

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