WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. OCTOBER
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Cyrus the great (founder of Persian Empire) entered capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land. (29. October 539. BC)

Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded. (29. October 312)

Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius. (29. October 437)

Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria. (29. October 969)

Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic Church. (29. October 1268)

First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. (29. October 1390)

Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France though he isn't officially crowned king until 1429. (29. October 1422)

Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liège. (29. October 1467)

Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa. (29. October 1611)

English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. (29. October 1618)

Battle of the Sound. (29. October 1658)

Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king António I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga. (29. October 1665)

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. (29. October 1675)

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague. (29. October 1787)

Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River. (29. October 1792)

Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross. (29. October 1863)

American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee. (29. October 1863)

The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. (29. October 1886)

The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. (29. October 1888)

In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. (29. October 1901)