What is July 29?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === *[[238]] &ndash; The [[Praetorian Guard]] storm the [[palace]] and capture [[Pupienus]] and [[Balbinus]], who are then dragged through the streets of [[Rome]] and executed. *[[904]] &ndash; Sack of [[Thessaloniki]] – [[Saracen]] raiders under [[Leo of Tripoli]] sack [[Thessaloniki]], the [[Byzantine Empire]]'s second–largest city after a short [[siege]], and plunder it for a week. *[[1014]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kleidion]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] [[Basil II]] inflicts a decisive defeat on the [[Bulgaria]]n [[army]]. The way he treats 15,000 [[prisoner]]s is said to have caused [[Tsar]] [[Samuel of Bulgaria]] to die of a heart attack just over two months later, on [[October 6]]. *[[1030]] &ndash; [[Battle of Stiklestad]]: King [[Olaf II of Norway]] fights and dies trying to regain his [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[throne]] from the [[Denmark|Danes]]. *[[1565]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] marries [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]] at [[Holyrood Palace]], [[Edinburgh]]. *[[1567]] &ndash; King [[James VI of Scotland]], barely a year old, is crowned in the Church of the Holy Rude in [[Stirling]]. *[[1588]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Armada]] is defeated. *[[1793]] &ndash; [[John Graves Simcoe]] decides to build a [[fort]] and [[Human settlement|settlement]] at [[Toronto]], having sailed into the bay there. *[[1836]] &ndash; [[Inauguration]] of the [[Arc de Triomphe]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]. *[[1848]] &ndash; [[Tipperary]] Revolt during the [[Irish Potato Famine]]: An unsuccessful national revolt against British rule is put down by [[police]]. *[[1851]] &ndash; [[Annibale de Gasparis]] discovers [[asteroid]] [[15 Eunomia]]. *[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Confederate spy [[Belle Boyd]] is arrested by Union troops and detained in Old Capitol [[Prison]], [[Washington, DC]]. *[[1894]] &ndash; [[First Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Japan]]ese troops defeat [[China|Chinese]] troops in the [[Battle]] of Seonghwan. *[[1899]] &ndash; The first [[The Hague|Hague]] Con