December 29

What happened on December 29 in history

5 events fall on December 29, from 1170 to 1940. Read them below, then try to place a historical scene yourself — guess where in the world it happened and in what year.

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Events on December 29

  1. 1170

    Thomas Becket is murdered

    Knights kill the archbishop in Canterbury Cathedral.

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  2. 1845

    Texas joins the Union

    The republic is annexed as the twenty-eighth state.

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  3. 1890

    The Wounded Knee massacre

    US soldiers kill some three hundred Lakota in South Dakota.

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  4. 1911

    Sun Yat-sen is elected president

    He becomes the first provisional president of the Chinese republic.

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  5. 1940

    The second Great Fire of London

    An incendiary raid sets the City alight around St Paul's.

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