WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. AUGUST
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Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). (29. August 708)

Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope, the last man to do so without being a cardinal first. (29. August 1261)

Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered. (29. August 1315)

Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. (29. August 1350)

The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. (29. August 1475)

Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV. (29. August 1484)

Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal. (29. August 1498)

The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade). (29. August 1521)

Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. (29. August 1526)

Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire. (29. August 1533)

The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. (29. August 1541)

Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. (29. August 1756)

The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. (29. August 1758)

American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island. (29. August 1778)

Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. (29. August 1786)

British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge. (29. August 1807)

Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. (29. August 1825)

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. (29. August 1831)

Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. (29. August 1842)

American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. (29. August 1861)