WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. JUNE
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Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. (29. June 226)

Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. (29. June 1149)

Sverre is crowned King of Norway. (29. June 1194)

Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. (29. June 1444)

Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. (29. June 1534)

The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground. (29. June 1613)

Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. (29. June 1644)

At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy. (29. June 1659)

First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey (29. June 1776)

Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. (29. June 1776)

Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. (29. June 1786)

Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos. (29. June 1807)

Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece. (29. June 1850)

Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. (29. June 1864)

Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year. (29. June 1874)

France annexes Tahiti. (29. June 1880)

In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. (29. June 1881)

George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music. (29. June 1888)

Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population. (29. June 1889)

Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. (29. June 1895)