On this day

June 29

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on June 29 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

1 event 1 century 1 country

1564

Iași was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia

Iaşi Romania

from 1564 to 1859 — for nearly three centuries; the principality covered roughly the territory of contemporary northeastern Romania plus the Republic of Moldova plus parts of southwestern Ukraine. The 1859 union of Moldavia and Wallachia under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (elected prince…

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