HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Tuesday, August 29, the 241st day of 2017. There are 124 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 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 the kingdoms of France and England. 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV. 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal. 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade). 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss. 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War. 1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island. 1786 – Shays’s Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. 1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge. 1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. 1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first mountain-climbing rack railway.