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===1601–1900===
*[[1803]] &ndash; The [[Louisiana Purchase]] is completed at a ceremony in [[New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lee |first=A |title=Making America, making American literature: Franklin to Cooper |publisher=Rodopi |location=Amsterdam Atlanta, GA |year=1996 |isbn=9789051839098 |page=347}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Peninsular War]]: The [[Second Siege of Zaragoza|Siege of Zaragoza]] begins.
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[HMS Clio (1807)|HMS ''Clio'']] under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at [[Port Egmont]] under orders to [[Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833)|take possession]] of the [[Falkland Islands]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=David |title=The Royal Navy and the Falklands War |publisher=L. Cooper |location=London |year=1987 |isbn=9780850520590 |page=28}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[1848 French presidential election|French presidential election]]: Having won the popular vote in a landslide, [[Napoleon III|Louis Napoleon Bonaparte]] is inaugurated in the chamber of the [[Palais Bourbon|National Assembly]] as the first (and only) president of the [[French Second Republic]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Luna |first=Frederick A. |title=The French Republic Under Cavaignac, 1848. |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1969 |publication-place=Princeton, New Jersey |pages=365–395}}</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[South Carolina]] becomes the first state to attempt to [[secession|secede]] from the United States with the [[South Carolina Declaration of Secession]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Cole Blease |last=Graham |title=The South Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMqpKirVOzMC&pg=PA16 |year=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29299-6 |page=16}}</ref>