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===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: The Dutch fleet [[Battle of Gibraltar (1607)|destroys]] the anchored Spanish fleet at [[Gibraltar]].
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[Transition from Ming to Qing]]: The [[Chongzhen Emperor]], the last Emperor of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]], commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by [[Li Zicheng]].
*[[1707]] &ndash; A coalition of Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at [[Battle of Almansa|Almansa]] (Spain) in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas J. Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]].
*  1792   &ndash; "[[La Marseillaise]]" (the French [[national anthem]]) is composed by [[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle]].
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809]]: The [[Battle of Trangen]] took place at Trangen in [[Flisa]], [[Hedmark|Hedemarkens Amt]], between Swedish and Norwegian troops.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Slaget ved Trangen |first=Oskar |last=Aanmoen |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=6 February 2024 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Slaget_ved_Trangen |language=no|access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Charles Fremantle]] arrives in [[HMS Challenger (1826)|HMS ''Challenger'']] off the coast of modern-day [[Western Australia]] prior to declaring the [[Swan River Colony]] for the [[British Empire]].
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Thornton Affair]]: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of [[Texas]], triggering the [[Mexican–American War]].
*[[1849]] &ndash; The [[Governor General of Canada]], [[James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin|Lord Elgin]], signs the [[Rebellion Losses Bill]], outraging [[Montreal]]'s [[English Canadian|English]] population and triggering the [[Montreal Riots]].
*[[1859]] &ndash; British and French engineers break ground for the [[Suez Canal]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Forces under [[Union (American Civil War)|U.S.]] [[Admiral]] [[David Farragut]] [[Capture of New Orleans|demand the surrender]] of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] city of [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: In the [[Battle of Marks' Mills]], a force of 8,000 [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] soldiers attacks 1,800 [[Union Army|Union]] soldiers and a large number of wagon [[teamster]]s, killing or wounding 1,500 Union combatants.
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[French Third Republic|French]] and [[Nguyễn dynasty|Vietnamese]] troops clashed in [[Tonkin]], when Commandant [[Henri Rivière (naval officer)|Henri Rivière]] [[Battle of Hanoi (1882)|seized]] the [[citadel of Hanoi]] with a small force of marine infantry.
*[[1892]] – [[Véry bombing]] during the ''[[Ère des attentats]]'' (1892–1894)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Merriman |first=John M. |title=The dynamite club: how a bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris ignited the age of modern terror |title-link=The Dynamite Club |date=2016 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21792-6 |location=New Haven |pages=70–90}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States Congress [[United States declaration of war upon Spain|declares that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain]] has existed since April 21, when an American naval [[blockade]] of the Spanish colony of [[Cuba]] began.<ref>{{cite book|last=Trask|first=David F.|title=The War With Spain in 1898|location=Lincoln, Neb.|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=1996|isbn=9780803294295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2f0Gf0DQfmUC|page=57}}</ref>