29 October in history
8 events that happened on 29 October, from 312 to 2012.
✦ Anniversary of the day
312 CE 1,714 years ago
Constantine I enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge
A day after defeating Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, Constantine I entered Rome in a grand adventus met with jubilation. He promised to restore the Senate's ancestral privileges, and there was no revenge against Maxentius' supporters.
1268 CE 758 years ago
Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen, is beheaded in Naples
Conradin, the last legitimate Hohenstaufen, who at fifteen had invaded Italy to recover Sicily from Charles of Anjou, was beheaded in the market square of Naples after his defeat at Tagliacozzo and capture while fleeing.
1281 CE 745 years ago
The Mamluks defeat the Ilkhanate at the Second Battle of Homs
In western Syria, the armies of the Mamluk Sultanate defeated those of the Ilkhanate, a division of the Mongol Empire centred on Iran. The battle was part of Abaqa Khan's attempt to take Syria from the Egyptians.
1618 CE 408 years ago
Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at Westminster
Courtier, poet and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in Old Palace Yard under a treason sentence from 1603. James I revived it after Raleigh's failed expedition to Guiana attacked a Spanish settlement.
1929 CE 97 years ago
Black Tuesday: the Wall Street Crash deepens
More than 16 million shares were sold in a day of panic on the New York Stock Exchange. Black Tuesday became the emblem of the crash that preceded the Great Depression.
2012 CE 14 years ago
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey
Sandy came ashore near Atlantic City, bringing a record storm surge that flooded lower Manhattan and the New York subway. Across the Caribbean and North America it killed more than 230 people.
Born on 29 October 4
Died on 29 October 3
Dates as the sources give them: in the Julian calendar before 1582, and in some countries for longer (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918). Only people whose day of birth or death the records agree on are listed.