Editing April 6 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1652]] &ndash; At the [[Cape of Good Hope]], Dutch sailor [[Jan van Riebeeck]] establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes [[Cape Town]].
*[[1712]] &ndash; The [[New York Slave Revolt of 1712]] begins near [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]].
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: Ships of the [[Continental Navy]] fail in their [[Battle of Block Island|attempt to capture]] a [[Royal Navy]] [[dispatch boat]].
*[[1782]] &ndash; King [[Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke]] (Rama I) of Siam (modern day [[Thailand]]) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
*[[1793]] &ndash; During the [[French Revolution]], the [[Committee of Public Safety]] becomes the executive organ of the republic.
*[[1800]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Constantinople (1800)|Treaty of Constantinople]] establishes the [[Septinsular Republic]], the first autonomous Greek state since the [[Fall of the Byzantine Empire]]. (Under the [[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]] calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.)<ref>{{cite book|last=Gekas|first=Sakis|title=Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864|location=New York|publisher=Berghahn|date=2017|isbn=9781785332616|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2joCwAAQBAJ|pages=23–24|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Mackridge|first=Peter|chapter=Introduction|title=The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture|editor-last1=Hirst|editor-first1=Anthony|editor-last2=Sammon|editor-first2=Patrick|location=Newcastle upon Tyne, UK|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2014|isbn=9781443862783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdIxBwAAQBAJ|page=5}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Astor]] incorporates the [[American Fur Company]], that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
*[[1812]] &ndash; British forces under the command of the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] assault the fortress of [[Siege of Badajoz (1812)|Badajoz]]. This would be the turning point in the [[Peninsular War]] against [[Napoleon]]-led France.
*[[1814]] &ndash; Nominal beginning of the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]]; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to [[Elba]].
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]], the original church of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], is [[April 6 (LDS Church)|organized]] by [[Joseph Smith]] and others at either [[Fayette, New York|Fayette]] or [[Manchester, New York]].
*[[1841]] &ndash; U.S. President [[John Tyler]] is sworn in, two days after having become president upon [[William Henry Harrison]]'s death.
*[[1860]] &ndash; The [[Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]], later renamed [[Community of Christ]], is organized by [[Joseph Smith III]] and others at [[Amboy, Illinois]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Shiloh]] begins: In [[Tennessee]], forces under [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] meet [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops led by General [[Albert Sidney Johnston]].
*[[1865]] &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Battle of Sailor's Creek]]: Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s [[Army of Northern Virginia]] fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from [[Richmond, Virginia]], during the [[Appomattox Campaign]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Grand Army of the Republic]], an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
*[[1896]] &ndash; In [[Athens]], the opening of the [[1896 Summer Olympics|first modern Olympic Games]] is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by [[Roman emperor]] [[Theodosius I]].