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===1601–1900===
*[[1624]] &ndash; [[Charles de La Vieuville]] is arrested and replaced by [[Cardinal Richelieu]] as the French king's chief advisor.
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[Praying Indian]] [[John Alderman]] shoots and kills [[Metacomet]], the [[Wampanoag people|Wampanoag]] war chief, ending [[King Philip's War]].
*[[1687]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mohács (1687)|Battle of Mohács]]: [[Charles V, Duke of Lorraine|Charles of Lorraine]] defeats the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Allahabad]] is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of [[Company rule in India]].
*[[1788]] &ndash; The [[Anjala conspiracy]] is signed.<ref>[http://www.anjala-seura.info/anjalan_liitto/Untitled-1.htm Anjalan liitto – Anjala-seura] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621015842/http://anjala-seura.info/anjalan_liitto/Untitled-1.htm |date=2021-06-21 }} (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; The [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]] and [[Loire (department)|Loire]] ''[[Departments of France|départments]]'' are created when the former ''département'' of [[Rhône-et-Loire]] is split into two.
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires]] re-takes the city of [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] after the [[British invasions of the River Plate|first British invasion]].
*[[1831]] &ndash; French intervention forces [[William I of the Netherlands]] to abandon [[Ten Days' Campaign|his attempt]] to suppress the [[Belgian Revolution]].
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Isaac Singer]] is granted a patent for his [[sewing machine]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Invention That Spawned a Fashion Revolution |url=https://time.com/3985665/sewing-machine-invented/ |magazine=Time |access-date=26 June 2020}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Joseph Lister]], British surgeon and scientist,  performs the first antiseptic surgery.
*[[1883]] &ndash; The last [[quagga]] dies at the [[Natura Artis Magistra]], a zoo in [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands.
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Flag of Hawaii|Hawaiian flag]] is lowered from [[ʻIolani Palace]] in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the [[flag of the United States]] to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the [[Republic of Hawaii]] to the United States where it is formally recognized as [[Hawaii]].