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===1601–1900===
*[[1604]] &ndash; ''[[The Masque of Indian and China Knights]]'' is performed by courtiers of [[James VI and I]] at [[Hampton Court]].<ref>Martin Butler, ''The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture'' (Cambridge, 2008), p. 63.</ref>
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] is [[Scottish coronation of Charles II|crowned]] [[King of Scotland]] at [[Scone Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Charles Knight's school history of England, abridged from the Popular history of England. &#91;With&#93; Questions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d30BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA360|year=1865|pages=360–|last1=Knight|first1=Charles}}</ref>
*[[1700]] &ndash; Russia begins using the [[Anno Domini]] era instead of the [[Anno Mundi]] era of the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Lancet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYpMAQAAMAAJ|year=1900|publisher=J. Onwhyn|page=351}}</ref>
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is proclaimed King of Portugal and the [[Algarves]] in Lisbon.<ref>{{cite book|first=William Harrison|last=De Puy|title=The world-wide encyclopedia and gazetteer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HORTAAAAYAAJ|year=1908|publisher=The Christian herald}}</ref>
* [[1725]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of his [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] [[Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41|''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41]], which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end.<ref>{{cite web
  | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000056?lang=en
  | title = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41; BC A 22
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
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  }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last1 = Dürr
  | first1 = Alfred
  | author1-link = Alfred Dürr
  | last2 = Jones
  | first2 = Richard D. P.
  | author2-link = Richard D. P. Jones
  | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA148
  | chapter = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41
  | title = The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text
  | location = Oxford
  | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
  | date = 2006
  | pages = 148–151
  | isbn = 978-0-19-969628-4
  }}</ref>
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Bouvet Island]], the world's remotest island,<ref>{{cite book | last = LastName | first = FirstName | title = The world factbook 2014-15 | publisher = Central Intelligence Agency | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 2015 | isbn = 9780160925535 | page=105}}</ref> is discovered by French explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Simpson-Housley|title=Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zWIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|date=11 March 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-89121-4|pages=69–}}</ref>
*[[1772]] &ndash; The first [[traveler's cheque]]s, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.<ref>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Robertson|title=The book of firsts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yaAvAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers|isbn=9780517515778}}</ref>
*[[1773]] &ndash; The hymn that becomes known as "[[Amazing Grace]]", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by [[John Newton]] in the town of [[Olney, Buckinghamshire]], England.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jonathan|last=Aitken|author-link=Jonathan Aitken|title=John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6pDZAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-9383-5}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Burning of Norfolk]] &ndash; [[Norfolk, Virginia]], is burned to the ground by combined [[Royal Navy]] and [[Continental Army]] action.<ref>{{cite book|first=Benson John|last=Lossing|author-link=Benson John Lossing|title=A Pictorial History of the United States: For School and Families|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YdH-UN-80kC&pg=PA182|year=1857|publisher=Mason Bros.|page=182}}</ref>
*  1776 &ndash; General [[George Washington]] hoists the first [[United States]] flag, the [[Continental Union Flag]], at [[Prospect Hill Monument|Prospect Hill]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.almanac.com/content/flag-day-celebration-american-flag|title=Flag Day 2020: Celebrating the American Flag|first=Old Farmer's|last=Almanac|author-link=Old Farmer's Almanac|website=Old Farmer's Almanac|date=16 November 2023|access-date=30 December 2019|archive-date=10 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610184657/https://www.almanac.com/content/flag-day-celebration-american-flag|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1781]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the [[6th Pennsylvania Regiment]] under General [[Anthony Wayne]]'s command rebel against the [[Continental Army]]'s winter camp in [[Morristown, New Jersey]] in the [[Pennsylvania Line Mutiny]] of 1781.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gavin K.|last=Watt|title=The Burning of the Valleys: Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AI95lnfrKSEC&pg=PA269|date=1 March 1997|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55488-312-7|page=269}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; The first edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of London, previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published.<ref>{{cite book|title=Macmillan's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmcyAQAAMAAJ|year=1879|publisher=Macmillan and Company}}</ref>
*[[1801]] &ndash; The legislative union of [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed, and the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] is proclaimed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeYxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA41|year=1802|page=41}}</ref>
*  1801   &ndash; [[Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]], the largest and first known object in the [[Asteroid belt]], is discovered by [[Giuseppe Piazzi]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Schmadel|first=Lutz|author-link=Lutz D. Schmadel|title=Dictionary of minor planet names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA15|edition=5th|year=2003|publisher=Springer|location=Germany|isbn=978-3-540-00238-3|page=15}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Saint-Domingue|French rule]] ends in [[Haiti]]. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in [[North America]] after the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Finkelman|author-link=Paul Finkelman|title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass Three-volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cCMbE4KKlX4C&pg=RA1-PA139|date=6 April 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-516777-1|pages=1–}}</ref>
*[[1806]] &ndash; The [[French Republican Calendar]] is abolished.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jean|last=Brissaud|title=A History of French Public Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkkP1k1vIyYC&pg=PA551|year=2001|publisher=Beard Books|isbn=978-1-58798-101-2|page=551}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; The United States [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves|bans the importation of slaves]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=George Hooker|last1=Colton|first2=James Davenport|last2=Whelpley|author-link2=James Davenport Whelpley|title=The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6OlBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA565|year=1849|publisher=Wiley and Putnam|page=565}}</ref>
*[[1810]] &ndash; Major-General [[Lachlan Macquarie]] officially becomes [[Governor of New South Wales]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15401674|title=Governor Macquarie|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=1 March 1913|page=7|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=17 January 2022|archive-date=17 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117091832/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15401674|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Mary Shelley|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]] (anonymously) publishes the pioneering work of science fiction, ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]]'', in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is published {{!}} January 1, 1818 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/frankenstein-published |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; The [[Greek Constitution of 1822]] is adopted by the [[First National Assembly at Epidaurus]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Albert P.|last1=Blaustein|author-link1=Albert Blaustein|first2=Gisbert H.|last2=Flanz|title=Constitutions of the Countries of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLNWAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Oceana Publications|isbn=9780379004670}}</ref>
*[[1834]] &ndash; Most of Germany forms the ''[[Zollverein]]'' customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iit.adelaide.edu.au/system/files/media/documents/2019-11/Discussion%20Paper%202019-05%20Florian%20Ploeckl%20131119.pdf|title=A Novel Institution: The Zollverein and the Origins of the Customs Union|last=Ploeckl|first=Florian|date=2019|access-date=2020-10-04|archive-date=2020-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307123334/https://iit.adelaide.edu.au/system/files/media/documents/2019-11/Discussion%20Paper%202019-05%20Florian%20Ploeckl%20131119.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1845]] &ndash; The Philippines moves its national calendar to align with other Asian countries' calendars by skipping Tuesday, December 31, 1844. The change has been ordered by Governor–General [[Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa|Narciso Claveria]] to reform the country's calendar so that it aligns with the rest of Asia. Its territory has been one day behind the rest of Asia for 323 years since the arrival of [[Ferdinand Magellan]] in the Philippines on March 16, 1521.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Anri|last=Ichimura|url=https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/philippines-international-date-line-time-a00304-20210217-lfrm|title=For Over 300 Years, the Philippines Was One Day Behind Every Country in Asia|publisher=EsquireMag.ph|date=February 17, 2021|access-date=March 1, 2023|language=EN|archive-date=March 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301123820/https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/philippines-international-date-line-time-a00304-20210217-lfrm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; The world's first [[UPMC Mercy|"Mercy" Hospital]] is founded in [[Pittsburgh]], United States, by a group of [[Sisters of Mercy]] from Ireland;<ref>{{cite book|first=Mary|last=Brignano|title=Beyond the Bounds: A History of UPMC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Jfv9HPdwAEC&pg=PA159|date=September 2009|publisher=Dorrance Publishing|isbn=978-1-4349-0283-2|pages=159–}}</ref> the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Postage stamps and postal history of Poland#First Polish stamp|The first Polish postage stamp]] is issued, replacing the [[Postage stamps and postal history of Russia|Russian stamps]] previously in use.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Stamp-collector's magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6awEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA186|year=1863|pages=1–}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Liberal Party (Mexico)|Liberal]] forces supporting [[Benito Juárez]] enter [[Mexico City]].<ref>{{cite book|ref=Kirkwood|title=History of Mexico.|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmexico00burt|url-access=registration|last=Kirkwood|first=Burton|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated|location=Westport, CT|isbn=978-1-4039-6258-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmexico00burt/page/103 103]}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Emancipation Proclamation]] takes effect in [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] territory.<ref>{{cite book|first=Louis P.|last=Masur|author-link=Louis Masur|title=Lincoln's Hundred Days|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKM9EZBKqyMC|date=22 September 2012|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-07133-9}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom is proclaimed [[Empress of India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4923428e-ba8a-4f32-abb7-2f1192c28592|title=Proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India at the Imperial Assemblage, Delhi|website=The National Archives|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-date=4 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404173102/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4923428e-ba8a-4f32-abb7-2f1192c28592|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; Twenty-five nations adopt [[Sandford Fleming]]'s proposal for [[standard time]] (and also, [[time zone]]s).<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian R.|last=Bartky|title=One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rC6sAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA272|year=2007|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5642-6|page=272}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Eritrea]] is consolidated into a [[colony]] by the [[Government of Italy|Italian government]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Belula|last=Tecle-Misghina|title=Asmara - an urban history: Rivista L'architettura delle città - UNESCO Chair Series n. 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebqZBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|date=11 February 2015|publisher=Edizioni Nuova Cultura|isbn=978-88-6812-354-3|pages=30–}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Ellis Island]] begins processing [[Immigration to the United States|immigrants into the United States]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Eithne|last=Loughrey|title=Annie Moore: First in Line for America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HG66yhiY5QC|year=1999|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-85635-245-1}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[New York City|New York, New York]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the [[City of Greater New York]]. The four initial [[Boroughs of New York City|boroughs]], [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[The Bronx]], are joined on January 25 by [[Staten Island]] to create the modern city of five boroughs.
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Spanish rule]] ends in [[Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book|first=S.|last=Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qY3LDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA912|date=26 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27094-7|pages=912–}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Nigeria]] becomes a British protectorate with [[Frederick Lugard]] as high commissioner.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=10|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>