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===1601–1900=== 
*[[1604]] &ndash; The [[Guru Granth Sahib]] is fully compiled and completed by [[Guru Arjan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jhutti-Johal |first=Jagbir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJb_i97CG70C&q=Guru+Granth+Sahib+september+1604&pg=PT17 |title=Sikhism Today. |date=2011 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4411-7001-9 |page=17 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1728]] &ndash; The city of [[Nuuk]] in [[Greenland]] is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the [[list of governors of Greenland|royal governor]] [[Claus Paarss]].
*[[1741]] &ndash; The [[1741 eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami|eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami]]: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a [[tsunami]] caused by the eruption of [[Oshima (Hokkaido)|Oshima]].<ref name="A Study on the Impacts of the 1741 Tsunami Recorded in the Annals of Joseon Dynasty">{{cite journal |author1=Sang-Shin Byun |author2=Kyeong Ok Kim |title=A study on the effects of the 1741 tsunami recorded in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty |journal=Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers |date=25 February 2021 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=30–37 |doi=10.9765/KSCOE.2021.33.1.30 |s2cid=233955868 |url=http://jkscoe.or.kr/journal/view.php?number=361 |access-date=30 March 2021|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[Frederick the Great]] attacks [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]], beginning the [[Seven Years' War]] in Europe.
*[[1758]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Easton]] establishes the first American [[Indian reservation]], at [[Indian Mills, New Jersey]], for the [[Lenape]].
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British and American forces battle indecisively at the [[Battle of Rhode Island]].
*[[1779]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and [[Iroquois]] forces at the [[Battle of Newtown]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/sullivan/sullbio2.html|title = Sullbio2}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Shays' Rebellion]], an armed uprising of [[Massachusetts]] farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
*[[1807]] &ndash; British troops under Sir [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Arthur Wellesley]] defeat a Danish militia outside [[Copenhagen]] in the [[Battle of Køge]].
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] and [[Empire of Brazil|Brazilian]] diplomats sign the [[Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825)|Treaty of Rio de Janeiro]], which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the [[War of Independence of Brazil|Brazilian war of independence]]. The treaty will be ratified by the [[King of Portugal]] three months later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tratado de Paz, Amizade e Aliança |url=http://dai-mre.serpro.gov.br/atos-internacionais/bilaterais/1825/b_2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623195152/http://dai-mre.serpro.gov.br/atos-internacionais/bilaterais/1825/b_2 |archive-date=23 June 2017 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=Sistema Atos Internacionais}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Michael Faraday]] discovers [[electromagnetic induction]].
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Nanking]] signing ends the [[First Opium War]].
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries]] gives Federal forces control of [[Pamlico Sound]].
*[[1869]] &ndash; The [[Mount Washington Cog Railway]] opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing [[rack railway]].
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Emperor Meiji]] orders the [[abolition of the han system]] and the establishment of [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] as local centers of administration. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: July 14, 1871).
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]] patents the world's first [[motorcycle]] with an [[internal combustion]] engine, the ''[[Daimler Reitwagen|Reitwagen]]''.
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]] tire company is founded in [[Akron, Ohio]].