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===1601–1900===
*[[1640]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Ripon]] is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles I of England.
*[[1689]] &ndash; General [[Enea Silvio Piccolomini (general)|Enea Silvio Piccolomini]] of Austria [[Skopje fire of 1689|burns down Skopje]] to prevent the spread of [[cholera]]; he dies of the disease soon afterwards.
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: The [[First Continental Congress]] adjourns in [[Philadelphia]].
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: A combined force of [[British Regulars|British regulars]], [[Canadian Militia|Canadian militia]] and [[Mohawk people|Mohawks]] defeat the [[United States Army]] in the [[Battle of the Chateauguay]].
*[[1825]] &ndash; The [[Erie Canal]] opens, allowing direct passage from the [[Hudson River]] to [[Lake Erie]].
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Royal Charter Storm]] kills at least eight hundred people in the British Isles.
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Unification of Italy]]: The [[Expedition of the Thousand]] ends when [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] presents his conquests to King [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy|Victor Emmanuel]] of Sardinia.
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[The Football Association]] is founded.
*[[1871]] &ndash; Liberian President [[Edward James Roye]] is deposed in a [[1871 Liberian coup d'état|coup d'état]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |trans-title=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|language=English |location= |isbn=9781461659310|page=90|publisher= Scarecrow Press}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Wyatt Earp]] and [[Doc Holliday]] participate in the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in [[Tombstone, Arizona]].<ref name="iketestimony">{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/clantontestimony.html|title=Testimony of Ike Clanton in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case|access-date=February 6, 2011|year=2005|editor-first=Douglas|editor-last=Linder|work=Famous Trials: The O.K. Corral Trial|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215162354/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/clantontestimony.html|archive-date=December 15, 2010}} From Turner, Alford (Ed.), ''The O.K. Corral Inquest'' (1992)</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Malleco Viaduct]] in Chile, at the time "the highest railroad bridge in the world", is inaugurated by President [[José Manuel Balmaceda]].<ref name="unesco" >{{cite web | url = https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1199/ | title= Malleco Viaduct | work = Entry on the UNESCO Tentative List | access-date = 2008-07-03}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Ida B. Wells]] publishes ''Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.''