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===1601–1900===
*[[1620]] &ndash; The ''[[Mayflower]]'' departs from [[Southampton]], England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the ''Speedwell'', springs a leak.<ref name="Landis1998">{{cite book|author=John T. Landis|title=Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mEMAAAAYAAJ|date=1 December 1998|publisher=Genealogical Pub.|isbn=978-0-8063-0206-5|page=6}}</ref>
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Beaver Wars]]: Fifteen hundred [[Iroquois]] [[Lachine massacre|attack]] [[Lachine, Quebec|Lachine]] in [[New France]].
*[[1716]] &ndash; [[Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)]]: One-fifth of a Turkish army and the [[Grand Vizier]] are killed in the [[Battle of Petrovaradin]].
*[[1735]] &ndash; [[Freedom of the press]]: ''New York Weekly Journal'' writer [[John Peter Zenger]] is acquitted of [[seditious libel]] against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's War]]: [[Battle of Bushy Run]]: British forces led by [[Henry Bouquet]] defeat [[Chief Pontiac]]'s [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]] at [[Battle of Bushy Run|Bushy Run]].
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[First Partition of Poland]]: The representatives of [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]], [[Prussia]], and [[Russian Empire|Russia]] sign three bilateral conventions condemning the "anarchy" of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and imputing to the three powers "ancient and legitimate rights" to the territories of the Commonwealth. The conventions allow each of the three great powers to annex a part of the Commonwealth, which they proceed to do over the course of the following two months.<ref>{{Cite book|title= The Partitions of Poland: 1772, 1793, 1795|first=Jerzy|last=Lukowski|publisher=Routledge|year=2014 |isbn=978-0-582-29274-1|pages=81}}</ref>
*[[1781]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Dogger Bank (1781)|Battle of Dogger Bank]] takes place.
*[[1796]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Castiglione]] in [[Napoleon]]'s first [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars]] results in a French victory.
*[[1816]] &ndash; The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working [[electrical telegraph|electric telegraph]] as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Greek War of Independence]]: [[Konstantinos Kanaris]] leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the [[Battle of Samos (1824)|Battle of Samos]].
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Cyrus West Field]] and others complete the first [[transatlantic telegraph cable]] after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Charles XV]] of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway in [[Trondheim]].
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: In order to help pay for the war effort, the [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] levies the first [[income tax]] as part of the [[Revenue Act of 1861]] (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in [[1872]]).
*  1861   &ndash; The [[United States Army]] abolishes [[Flagellation|flogging]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)|Battle of Baton Rouge]]: Along the [[Mississippi River]] near [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Battle of Mobile Bay]] begins at [[Mobile Bay]] near [[Mobile, Alabama]], Admiral [[David Farragut]] leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
*[[1874]] &ndash; Japan launches its [[postal savings system]], modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Standard Oil]] Company of New Jersey, today known as [[ExxonMobil]], is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity at the center of the [[breakup of Standard Oil]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION :: New Jersey (US) :: OpenCorporates |url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nj/3793794100 |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=opencorporates.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical Overview · Overview · Standard Oil vs. Everyone |url=http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/standardoilvseveryone/exhibits/show/overview/overview |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=projects.leadr.msu.edu}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; The cornerstone for the [[Statue of Liberty]] is laid on [[Liberty Island|Bedloe's Island]] (now Liberty Island) in [[New York Harbor]].
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Bertha Benz]] drives from [[Mannheim]] to [[Pforzheim]] and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the [[Bertha Benz Memorial Route]] since 2008.