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===1601–1900=== *[[1703]] – During the ''[[Bavarian Rummel]]'' the rural population of [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]] drove the [[History of Bavaria#Absolutism|Bavarian]] Prince-Elector [[Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria|Maximilian II Emanuel]] out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the [[Bavarian Army]], which was allied with [[History of France#Louis XIV (1643–1715)|France]], from marching as planned on [[Vienna]] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]. *[[1745]] – The first recorded [[History of women's cricket|women's cricket]] match takes place near [[Guildford]], England. *[[1758]] – [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]] ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]]. *[[1775]] – The office that would later become the [[United States Post Office Department]] is established by the [[Second Continental Congress]]. [[Benjamin Franklin]] of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General. *[[1778]] – The [[Emigration of Christians from the Crimea (1778)|Emigration of Christians from the Crimea in 1778]] begins.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beketov |first=V. M. |title=Регіональне і загальне в історії: Тези міжнародної наукової конференції, присвяченої 140-річчю від дня народження Д.І.Яворницького та 90-літтю XIII Археологічного з'їзду (9 листопада 1995 р.). |publisher=[[Institute of History of Ukraine]] |year=1995 |isbn=5-7707-8671-X |location=Dnipro |pages=262–264 |language=uk |trans-title=Regional and general in history: Abstracts from the international scientific conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of D.I. Yavornytsky and the 90th anniversary of the XIII Archaeological Congress (9 November 1995) |contribution=З історії переселення греків з Криму на Маріупольщину: Митрополит Ігнатій (Газадінов) |access-date=13 March 2023 |contribution-url=http://new.museum.dp.ua/uk/article0564.html |via=[[Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipropetrovsk]] |trans-contribution=From the history of the relocation of the Greeks from the Crimea to the Mariupol region: Metropolitan Ignatius (Gazadinov) |contributor-last=Kozina |contributor-first=N. I. |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313142602/http://new.museum.dp.ua/uk/article0564.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[1788]] – New York ratifies the [[United States Constitution]] and becomes the 11th state of the United States. *[[1803]] – The [[Surrey Iron Railway]], arguably the world's first public [[Rail transport|railway]], opens in south London, United Kingdom. *[[1814]] – The [[Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)|Swedish–Norwegian War]] begins. *[[1822]] – [[José de San Martín]] arrives in [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]], to [[Guayaquil Conference|meet]] with [[Simón Bolívar]]. * 1822 – First day of the three-day [[Battle of Dervenakia]], between the [[Ottoman Empire]] force led by [[Mahmud Dramali Pasha]] and the [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolutionary]] force led by [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]]. *[[1847]] – [[Liberia]] declares its independence from the [[United States]]. [[France]] and [[the United Kingdom]] are the first to recognize the new nation. *[[1848]] – The [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] is established by [[Nelson Dewey]], first [[Governor of Wisconsin]].<ref name="uwtimeline">{{cite web |title=Historical Timeline |url=http://www.wisc.edu/about/historical-timeline/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220226/http://www.wisc.edu/about/historical-timeline/ |archive-date=September 14, 2017 |access-date=September 14, 2017 |website=University of Wisconsin-Madison}}</ref> *[[1861]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[George B. McClellan]] assumes command of the [[Army of the Potomac]] following a disastrous [[Union Army|Union]] defeat at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]]. *[[1863]] – American Civil War: [[Morgan's Raid]] ends; At [[Salineville, Ohio]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cavalry leader [[John Hunt Morgan]] and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. *[[1882]] – Premiere of [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Parsifal]]'' at [[Bayreuth]]. * 1882 – The Republic of [[Stellaland]] is founded in Southern Africa. *[[1887]] – Publication of the ''[[Unua Libro]]'', founding the Esperanto movement. *[[1890]] – In [[Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires, Argentina]] the [[Revolution of the Park|Revolución del Parque]] takes place, forcing President [[Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman]]'s resignation. *[[1891]] – France annexes [[Tahiti]]. *[[1892]] – [[Dadabhai Naoroji]] is elected as the first Indian [[British House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] in Britain.<ref>{{citation |date=26 Jul 2013 |title=From the archive, 26 July 1892: Britain's first Asian MP elected |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/26/election-naoroji-finsbury-1892 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> *[[1897]] – [[Anglo-Afghan War]]: The [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[fakir]] [[Saidullah]] leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a [[Siege of Malakand|siege of the British garrison]] in the [[Malakand Agency]] of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North West Frontier Province]] of India. *[[1899]] – [[Ulises Heureaux]], the 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]], is assassinated.
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