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===1601–1900===
*[[1766]] - The [[Nottingham cheese riot|Nottingham Cheese Riot]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Periodic Table of Nottingham - University of Nottingham |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/periodicnottingham/chromium#:~:text=On%202%20October%201766%20the,knocked%20down%20by%20a%20cheese. |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref> breaks out at the [[Nottingham Goose Fair|Goose Fair]] in [[Nottingham]], UK, in response to the excessive cost of cheese.
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[John André]], a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.<ref name="André">{{cite web |title=John André &#124; British military officer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Andre |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=4 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; The [[United States Bill of Rights]] is sent to the various States for ratification.<ref>{{cite book |last1=States |first1=U. S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original |title=The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties |date=1992 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-945612-29-2 |page=242 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6yyQXl4LmdAC&pg=PA242 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to [[Battle of Gonzales|disarm the people of Gonzales]], but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer |last2=Arnold |first2=James R. |last3=Wiener |first3=Roberta |last4=Pierpaoli (Jr.) |first4=Paul G. |last5=Cutrer |first5=Thomas W. |last6=Santoni |first6=Pedro |title=The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-853-8 |page=226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&pg=PA226 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Confederates [[First Battle of Saltville|defeat]] a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaffer |first1=Michael |title=In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry |date=2018 |publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-1-62190-430-4 |page=272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofuwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; By [[plebiscite]], the citizens of the Papal States accept [[Capture of Rome|annexation by the Kingdom of Italy]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bartolini |first1=Giulio |title=A History of International Law in Italy |date= 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-884293-4 |page=311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4_UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311 |language=en}}</ref>