| 29 June 984 | Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria [political events] | A diet of German princes recognizes Otto III, the young son of the late Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, as king of Germany. Henry the Wrangler surrenders Otto to his mother, Theophano, and grandmother, Adelaide, and is restored to the duchy of Bavaria in compensation. |
| 29 June 1080 | Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Papal States, Italy, Apulia [treaties] | In the Treaty of Ceprano, Pope Gregory VII makes an alliance against King Henry IV of Germany with Robert Guiscard, the Norman duke of Apulia, and recognizes his conquests in southern Italy and Sicily. |
| 29 June 1147 | Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, Germany [wars] | An assembly of Saxon nobles plans a crusade against the pagan Wends of the Baltic. |
| 29 June 1529 | Papal States, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Naples, Hungary, Bohemia, Milan, Florence, Habsburg Monarchy, Italy [treaties] | Pope Clement VII submits to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in the Treaty of Barcelona, by which he agrees to crown Charles V and invest him with the kingdom of Naples, and to recognize his brother Ferdinand as king of Hungary and Bohemia, and accepts that the Habsburgs will receive the Italian duchy of Milan after the death of Duke Francesco II Sforza. In return, the Pope's family, the Medici, are to be restored in Florence, taking the title of duke, and the Pope is to regain the allegiance of the papal towns of Italy. |
| 29 June 1629 | France [treaties] | The Peace of Alais ends the Huguenot (French Protestant) revolt in the Languedoc, southern France. The Huguenots are assured of religious liberty, but are required to end all political organization. The governments of Nîmes, Montauban, and other cities are remodelled. |
| 29 June 1652 | North America [administration] | The Puritan leadership of Massachusetts declares the colony a self-governing independent commonwealth, the culmination of a long political struggle over the degree of independence allowed by its 1629 royal charter. The colony's de facto independence lasts until the restoration of King Charles II of England in 1660 and the issue of a new charter. |
| 29 June 1679 | Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Sweden [treaties] | As a result of the European peace wrought by the Nijmegen treaties and to avoid a French invasion of his territories, Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg is forced to sign the Peace of St Germain. It ends the war with Sweden and by its terms Brandenburg loses all conquests in Swedish Pomerania, except some insubstantial territories on the right bank of the River Oder. |
| 29 June 1855 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Telegraph newspaper is launched in Britain. |
| 29 June 1913 | Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece [Balkan wars (1912–13)] | The Second Balkan War begins when Bulgaria attacks Serbian and Greek positions. |
| 29 June 1955 | USA [athletics] | Charles Dumas of the USA, aged 19, in winning the high jump at the US Olympic Trials, becomes the first person to clear the 2.1 m/7 ft barrier with a jump of 2.11m/7ft ½in. |
| 29 June 1956 | USA [popular culture] | The US actor Marilyn Monroe marries the US playwright Arthur Miller; this is her third marriage. They divorce in 1961. |
| 29 June 1966 | UK [banking and finance] | The first British credit card, the Barclaycard, is launched. |
| 29 June 1985 | USA, England [popular music] | The most expensive piece of pop memorabilia to date is sold at Sotheby's in New York City when John Lennon's Rolls Royce fetches over £1.75 million. |
| 29 June 2001 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Netherlands [political events] | Deposed Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Miloševic is extradited to the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, to face charges of atrocities and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. The move splits the federal Yugoslav government, as Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin allies resign. |
| 29 June 2003 | USA [births and deaths] | Katharine Hepburn, US film star for more than fifty years and winner of four Academy Awards for Best Actress, dies in Old Saybrook, Connecticut (96). |
