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===1601–1900===
*[[1624]] &ndash; The French king [[Louis XIII]] appoints [[Cardinal Richelieu]] as prime minister.
*[[1645]] &ndash; Sweden and Denmark sign [[Peace of Brömsebro]].
*[[1650]] &ndash; Colonel [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle|George Monck]] of the [[English Army]] forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the [[Coldstream Guards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coldstreamguards-boro.org/Regimental%20History.htm |title=History of the Coldstream Guards |access-date=26 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906170010/http://coldstreamguards-boro.org/Regimental%20History.htm |archive-date=6 September 2013}}</ref>
*[[1704]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Battle of Blenheim]]: [[Kingdom of England|English]] and [[Holy Roman Empire|Imperial]] forces are victorious over [[Kingdom of France|French]] and [[Electorate of Bavaria|Bavaria]]n troops.
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] leads the first performance of [[Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101|''Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott'', BWV 101]], a [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] on [[Vater unser im Himmelreich|a famous tune]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000126?lang=en
  | title = Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott BWV 101; BC A 118
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2024
  }}</ref>
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[Royal Navy]] defeats the [[Penobscot Expedition]] with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].
*[[1792]] &ndash; King [[Louis XVI]] of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an [[enemy of the people]].
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mišar]] during the [[Serbian Revolution]] begins. The battle ends two days later with a Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
*[[1814]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814|Convention of London]], a treaty between the United Kingdom and the [[Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands|United Netherlands]], is signed in London, England.
*[[1868]] &ndash; The 8.5–9.0 {{M|w}} [[1868 Arica earthquake|Arica earthquake]] struck southern [[Peru]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide [[tsunami]] that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
*[[1889]] &ndash; William Gray of [[Hartford, Connecticut]] is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US408709.pdf |title=Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones |website=google.com |access-date=13 August 2017 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402133309/https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com%2Fpdfs%2FUS408709.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: Spanish and American forces engage in a [[Battle of Manila (1898)|mock battle]] for [[Manila]], after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Kenneth Ray|chapter=MacArthur, Arthur|title=The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898–1934: An Encyclopedia|editor-last=Beede|editor-first=Benjamin R.|location=Florence, Ky.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=1994|isbn=9780824056247|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cf-AAAAAQBAJ|page=275|access-date=2020-08-13|archive-date=2016-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503105529/https://books.google.com/books?id=cf-AAAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1898   &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Witt]] discovers [[433 Eros]], the first [[near-Earth asteroid]] to be found.
*[[1900]] &ndash; The steamer [[SS Deutschland (1900)|Deutschland]] of [[Hamburg America Line]]s set a new record for the eastward passage when it docked on [[Plymouth]], England, five days, 11 hours and 45 minutes after sailing from New York, breaking by three hours, six minutes its previous mark in its maiden voyage in July.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=18|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>