On July 29
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly July 29 — the closest is Al-Mansur founds Baghdad as the Abbasid capital on July 30, 762 CE (1 day later).
This week in history (Jul 26 – Aug 1)
The Bank of England was established in 1694 to raise money for King William III's government, which was struggling to finance the Nine Years' War against Louis XIV's France.
On 30 July 762, the second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur commissioned a new capital on the west bank of the Tigris, officially named Madinat al-Salam, the City of Peace.
After years of effort led by the American financier Cyrus Field, the first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed on 5 August 1858, and on 16 August Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan exchanged congratulatory messages, the…
On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company, asserting Egyptian sovereignty over the strategic waterway and intending to fund the Aswan High Dam after Western financing was…