THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 29
August 29 in history
What happened on August 29: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1793, 1842, 1871 and 1949, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Proclamation of Camp Turel
29 Aug 1793 — From his camp in the hills, Toussaint issues his first proclamation. He is fighting for Spain at the time, but declares that he wants liberty and equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. He signs the proclamation Louverture.
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— Treaty of Nanking
29 Aug 1842 — Britain’s victory in the Opium War forced Qing China to cede Hong Kong, pay 21 million silver dollars and open five ports to foreign trade. The news reached Japan that summer: alarmed by British victories, the shogunate softened its order to fire on foreign ships.
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The Meiji emperor summons the former lords to Tokyo. With an imperial guard of 10,000 men standing by, he abolishes their 261 domains in one decree; Japan becomes a single state overnight.
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— First Soviet atomic bomb test
29 Aug 1949 — At Semipalatinsk, the USSR tests an atomic bomb years sooner than Western estimates had predicted. The United States has held its monopoly for four years and twenty days, counting from Nagasaki; now it is over.
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