Editing April 29 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1760]] &ndash; French forces commence the [[Siege of Quebec (1760)|siege of Quebec]] which is held by the British.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Snow |first1=Dan |title=Death Or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire |date=2009|pages=416–17 |publisher=Harper Collins UK |isbn=9780007286201}}</ref>
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] arrives in [[Australia]] at [[Botany Bay]], which he names.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Isabella |last2=Collard |first2=Sarah |title=Captain James Cook's landing and the Indigenous first words contested by Aboriginal leaders |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-29/captain-cook-landing-indigenous-people-first-words-contested/12195148 |access-date=29 November 2021 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |date=28 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British and French ships clash in the [[Battle of Fort Royal]] off the coast of [[Martinique]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clowes |first1=William Laird |last2=Markham |first2=Clements |last3=Mahan |first3=Alfred Thayer |last4=Wilson |first4=Herbert Wrigley |last5=Roosevelt |first5=Theodore |last6=Laughton |first6=Carr |author1-link=William Laird Clowes |author2-link=Clements Markham |author3-link=Alfred Thayer Mahan |author4-link=Herbert Wrigley Wilson |author5-link=Theodore Roosevelt |title=The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present |date=1898 |page=483 |volume=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistor03clow/page/482/mode/2up |access-date=29 November 2021}}</ref>
*[[1826]] &ndash; The galaxy [[Centaurus A]] or NGC 5128 is discovered by [[James Dunlop]].<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Peter |last1=Robertson |first2=Glen |last2=Cozens |first3=Wayne |last3=Orchiston |first4=Bruce |last4=Slee |first5=Harry |last5=Wendt |title=Early Australian Optical and Radio Observations of Centaurus A|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia|volume=27 |issue=4 |date=1 January 2010 |pages=402–430 |issn=1323-3580 |doi=10.1071/AS09071 |arxiv = 1012.5137 |bibcode = 2010PASA...27..402R |s2cid=54580482 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dunlop |first1=James |title=A catalogue of nebulæ and clusters of stars in the southern hemisphere, observed at Paramatta in New South Wales, … |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |date=1828 |volume=118 |pages=113–151 |doi=10.1098/rstl.1828.0010 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1828.0010}} Centaurus A is listed on p. 138 as entry number 482. A sketch of Centaurus A appears as Fig. 20 on the plate between pages 114 and 115.</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Maryland in the American Civil War]]: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Mitchell |editor1-first=Charles W. |title=Maryland Voices of the Civil War |date=July 2007 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=9780801886218 |page=87}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Capture of New Orleans]] by Union forces under [[David Farragut]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hearn|first=Chester G. |title=When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans |publisher=Louisiana State University |year=1997 |isbn=9780807121801|location=Baton Rouge |pages=243–245}}</ref>
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Siege of Corinth]] begins as [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces under General [[Henry Halleck]] moves to engage [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces led by General [[P. G. T. Beauregard]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Siege of Corinth - First Battle of Corinth|url=https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/siege-corinth|publisher=American Battlefield Trust|website=battlefields.org|access-date=May 3, 2025}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Theta Xi]] fraternity is founded at [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], the only fraternity to be founded during the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities|location=Menasha, Wisc.|publisher=G. Banta Co.|date=1977|oclc=1519027|page=346|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Watts|first=Michelle Taylor|chapter=Fraternities and Sororities|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society|editor-last1=Wherry|editor-first1=Frederick F.|editor-last2=Schor|editor-first2=Juliet|location=Los Angeles|publisher=SAGE|date=2016|isbn=9781452226439|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ByWDCwAAQBAJ|page=739 |via=Google Books}}</ref>