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On October 29, 312: Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

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Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.

People

Born on October 29

Lance Stroll 1998– Canadian racing driver (born 1998)
Vince Dunn 1996– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Mikko Rantanen 1996– Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Astrid S 1996– Norwegian singer (born 1996)
Danielle Hunter 1994– Jamaican-born American football player (born 1994)
Ágnes Bukta 1993– Hungarian tennis player
India Eisley 1993– British-born American actress (born 1993)
Evan Fournier 1992– French basketball player (born 1992)
Colin Miller 1992– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
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Parris Goebel 1991– New Zealand dancer and choreographer (born 1991)
Nikita Zaitsev 1991– Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Ender Inciarte 1990– Venezuelan baseball player (born 1990)
Ben Proudfoot 1990– Canadian director and filmmaker (born 1990)
Eric Saade 1990– Swedish singer (born 1990)
Irina Karamanos 1989– Chilean anthropologist and political scientist (born 1989)
Primož Roglič 1989– Slovenian racing cyclist (born 1989)
Janoris Jenkins 1988– American football player (born 1988)
Andy Dalton 1987– American football player (born 1987)

People

Died on October 29

Teri Garr American actress (1944–2024)
Hiroshi Morie Japanese musician (1968–2023)
Ashley Mallett Australian cricketer (1945–2021)
Angelika Amon Austrian American academic molecular and cell biologist (1967–2020)
John Witherspoon American actor (1942–2019)
Luther Burden American basketball player (1953–2015)
Ernesto Herrera Filipino politician (1942–2015)
Boris Kristančič Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)
Ranko Žeravica Serbian basketball coach
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Roger Freeman American politician
Klas Ingesson Swedish footballer and manager (1968-2014)
H. Gary Morse American businessman (1936–2014)
Jean Rénald Clérismé Haitian politician, diplomat and Catholic priest
Sherman Halsey American director and producer (born 1957)
John Spence American diver for the United States Navy
Graham Stark English comedian and actor (1922–2013)
Letitia Baldrige American public relations executive, etiquette expert, and Kennedy staffer (1926–2012)
J. Bernlef Dutch writer and translator (1937–2012)

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Every October 29 on record

  1. 312 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

    Roman emperor from 306 to 337

    Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.

  2. 437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.

    Western Roman emperor from 425 to 455

    Valentinian III was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Starting in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by civil wars among powerful generals and the barbarian invasions. He was the youngest sole emperor in the Western Roman Empire.

  3. 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

    Practices believed to use supernatural powers

    Witchcraft is the use of magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. Though the idea of witchcraft is largely imaginary, it has nevertheless served in many cultures as a way to explain the presence of evil.

  4. 1467 Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

    1467 battle of the Second Liège War

    The Battle of Brustem was fought on 28 October 1467 in Brustem, near Sint-Truiden between the Burgundian State and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, as part of the Second Liège War.

  5. 1611 Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.

    1611 oath of allegiance by Mickail Shuisky of Russia to the Polish King Sigismund III

    Shuisky tribute was the act of homage of the deposed Mickail Shuisky of Russia and his retinue to the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa and teenage prince Władysław on October 29, 1611, in the Senate Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

  6. 1621 The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).
  7. 1658 Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
  8. 1665 Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
  9. 1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
  10. 1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
  11. 1863 Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
  12. 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  13. 1888 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
  14. 1914 World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.
  15. 1918 World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
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  1. 1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
  2. 1929 Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.
  3. 1941 The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
  4. 1944 World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
  5. 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
  6. 1948 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
  7. 1953 BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
  8. 1955 The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailers.
  9. 1956 Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
  10. 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.
  11. 1960 An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
  12. 1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
  13. 1964 Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems.
  14. 1967 Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
  15. 1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

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