User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 29

August 29

 * 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.
 * 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
 * 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
 * 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.