| 85531 | July 29 | Event | 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen. |
| 85532 | July 29 | Event | 1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. |
| 85533 | July 29 | Event | 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. |
| 85534 | July 29 | Event | 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 85535 | July 29 | Event | 1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. |
| 85536 | July 29 | Event | 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. |
| 85537 | July 29 | Event | 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. |
| 85538 | July 29 | Event | 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. |
| 85539 | July 29 | Event | 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt: In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. |
| 85540 | July 29 | Event | 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. |
| 85541 | July 29 | Event | 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. |
| 85542 | July 29 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. |
| 85543 | July 29 | Event | 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed. |
| 85544 | July 29 | Event | 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. |
| 85545 | July 29 | Event | 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. |
| 85546 | July 29 | Event | 1913 – The Norwegian football club Vålerenga Fotball was founded. |
| 85547 | July 29 | Event | 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened. |
| 85548 | July 29 | Event | 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. |
| 85549 | July 29 | Event | 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
| 85550 | July 29 | Event | 1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. |
| 85551 | July 29 | Event | 1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. |
| 85552 | July 29 | Event | 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. |
| 85553 | July 29 | Event | 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London. |
| 85554 | July 29 | Event | 1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn. |
| 85555 | July 29 | Event | 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. |
| 85556 | July 29 | Event | 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). |
| 85557 | July 29 | Event | 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. |
| 85558 | July 29 | Event | 1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. |
| 85559 | July 29 | Event | 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. |
| 85560 | July 29 | Event | 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. |