What happened on 29 August?

26 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea Korea is absorbed into the Japanese empire for 35 years of colonial rule.
2. 1831 Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction Faraday's experiments at the Royal Institution show that a changing magnetic field induces an electric current.
3. 1833 Factory Act 1833 Bans factory employment of children under nine; limits hours for under-18s; first effective British labour regulation; appoints inspectors.
4. 1632 Born: John Locke English philosopher of empiricism and natural rights; shaped liberalism and the US founders.
5. 1526 Battle of Mohacs Suleiman the Magnificent shatters the Kingdom of Hungary; Ottomans reach central Europe.
6. 1947 Drafting of the Indian Constitution Ambedkar chairs the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly; constitution adopted 26 Nov 1949, in force 26 Jan 1950.
7. 1842 Treaty of Nanking Ends the First Opium War; cedes Hong Kong Island to Britain and opens treaty ports.
8. 1958 Born: Michael Jackson King of Pop.
9. 1897 First Zionist Congress Herzl convenes congress in Basel; founds the World Zionist Organization; commits to a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
10. 1780 Born: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French Neoclassical painter.
11. 1619 Born: Jean-Baptiste Colbert Controller-General of finances under Louis XIV; mercantilist economic policy.
12. 2005 Hurricane Katrina Storm devastates New Orleans and exposes deep American inequalities.
13. 1475 Treaty of Picquigny Edward IV of England agrees to withdraw from France for an annual pension — effective end of the Hundred Years War.
14. 1917 Conscription Crisis in Canada 1917 conscription law splits English- and French-speaking Canada.
15. 1793 Sonthonax abolishes slavery in Saint-Domingue With the colony collapsing and Spain and Britain circling, the French commissioner Sonthonax proclaims general emancipation to rally the insurgent slaves to the Republic — abolitio
16. 1588 Hideyoshi's sword hunt Hideyoshi confiscates weapons from peasants and monks; reinforces the rigid samurai-commoner class divide that defines Tokugawa Japan.
17. 1871 Abolition of the han system Meiji government replaces feudal domains with centrally administered prefectures; transforms Japanese government overnight.
18. 1521 Ottoman capture of Belgrade Suleiman's first major conquest, opening the road into Hungary.
19. 1952 Cage's 4'33" Composition consisting entirely of the ambient sounds of its performance.
20. 1916 Hindenburg and Ludendorff's Third Supreme Command The victors of Tannenberg take over the German war effort, mobilise the whole economy under the Hindenburg Programme and become Germany's de facto rulers until the 1918 collapse.
21. 1070 Lanfranc becomes Archbishop of Canterbury With the English episcopate purged, William installs the Italian lawyer-monk Lanfranc at Canterbury to Normanise the English church — within a generation almost every bishopric, ab
22. 1862 Battle of Aspromonte Marching on Rome without royal sanction, Garibaldi is shot in the foot and captured by Italian government troops in Calabria.
23. 2016 Anthropocene proposed as new geological epoch Working group proposes formal recognition of the Anthropocene.
24. 2013 Commons rejects military action in Syria After the Ghouta chemical attack, MPs vote 285–272 against Cameron's motion for strikes on Assad — the first time since 1782 a British government has lost a vote on military action
25. 1944 Slovak National Uprising Slovak soldiers and partisans rise against the clerical-fascist puppet state and its German protectors; crushed after two months, it anchors Slovakia's post-war identity.
26. 1882 The Ashes rivalry begins Australia's first Test win on English soil, at The Oval, prompts the Sporting Times to publish a mock obituary for English cricket — its body to be cremated and 'the ashes taken to