Template:On this day/August 29
- 1814 – War of 1812: British Major Edward Nicholls issued a proclamation from Spanish Pensacola urging Louisiana natives to assist him "in liberating [their land] from a faithless, imbecile government."
- 1850 – John Jerrison died.
- 2001 – The Historic Pensacola Preservation Board was renamed West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.