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===1601β1900=== *[[1721]] – [[Robert Walpole]] becomes, in effect, the first [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]], though he himself denied that title.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marples|first=Alice|date=1 April 2021|title=Sir Robert Walpole: Britain's first Prime Minister|url=https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/sir-robert-walpole-britains-first-prime-minister|url-status=live|access-date=3 April 2021|website=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401162823/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/sir-robert-walpole-britains-first-prime-minister/ |archive-date=2021-04-01 }}</ref> *[[1851]] – [[Mongkut|Rama IV]] is crowned [[Monarchy of Thailand|King]] of [[Thailand]] after the death of his half-brother, [[Rama III]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bowman|first=John Stewart|title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=2000|isbn=9780231110044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkqsAgAAQBAJ|page=515|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=Soonthornthum|first1=Boonrucksar|last2=Orchiston|first2=Wayne|chapter=King Rama IV: Astronomer and 'The Father of Thai Science'|title=Exploring the History of Southeast Asian Astronomy: A Review of Current Projects and Future Prospects and Possibilities|editor-last1=Soonthornthum|editor-first1=Boonrucksar|editor-last2=Orchiston|editor-first2=Wayne|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Springer|date=2021|isbn=9783030627775|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUw2EAAAQBAJ|page=253}}</ref> *[[1860]] – The first successful United States [[Pony Express]] run from [[St. Joseph, Missouri]], to [[Sacramento, California]], begins.<ref>{{cite book|last=Corbett|first=Christopher|title=Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express|location=New York|publisher=Broadway Books|date=2003|isbn=9780767906920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGE9DwAAQBAJ|pages=46β48}}</ref> *[[1865]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces capture [[Richmond, Virginia]], the capital of the [[Confederate States of America]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McPherson|first=James|title=Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2006|isbn=9780195038637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXfGuNAvm7AC|page=837}}</ref> *[[1882]] – [[American Old West]]: [[Robert Ford (outlaw)|Robert Ford]] kills [[Jesse James]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Stiles|first=T.J.|title=Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War|location=New York|publisher=Vintage Books|date=2003|isbn=9780375705588|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ5FmmamezsC|pages=3β4}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Gottlieb Daimler]] is granted a German [[patent]] for a light, high-speed, four-stroke [[engine]], which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the [[Daimler Reitwagen]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Avery|first=Derek|title=Motorcycles|location=London|publisher=Caxton Editions|date=2003|isbn=9781840673203|page=4|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Mangone|first=Gerard J.|title=Marine Policy for America|location=New York|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=1988|isbn=9780844815374|page=41}}</ref> *[[1888]] – [[Jack the Ripper]]: The first of 11 [[Whitechapel murders|unsolved brutal murders]] of women committed in or near the impoverished [[Whitechapel]] district in the [[East End of London]], occurs.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Keppel|first1=Robert D.|last2=Birnes|first2=William J.|title=Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers|location=Boca Raton, Fla.|publisher=CRC Press|date=2009|isbn=9781420066326|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MC_5RNi2Yc0C|pages=41β42}}</ref> *[[1895]] – The trial in the [[libel]] case brought by [[Oscar Wilde]] begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of [[homosexuality]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Grech|first=Leanne|title=Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education: The Oxford Classical Curriculum|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2019|isbn=9783030143749|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4niQDwAAQBAJ|page=210}}</ref>
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