Editing December 6 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Pride's Purge]] removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the [[High Court of Justice (1649)|High Court of Justice]] could put the King on trial.
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[Charles Edward Stuart]]'s army begins retreat during the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|second Jacobite Rising]].
*[[1790]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] moves from [[New York City]] to [[Philadelphia]].
*[[1803]] &ndash; Five [[French Navy|French warships]] attempting to escape the [[Blockade of Saint-Domingue|Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue]] are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the [[Haitian Revolution]].<ref name="EPB294">{{cite book | last = Brenton | first = Edward Pelham | author-link = Edward Pelham Brenton | year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, Vol. III | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-2cUAAAAQAAJ&q=edward+pelham+brenton | publisher = C Rice|page= 294 |location = London}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ratifies the [[13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225114303/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=live|title=THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Centennial Edition INTERIM EDITION: ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO JUNE 26, 2013s|access-date=February 17, 2014|last=U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE|first=112th Congress, 2nd Session, SENATE DOCUMENT No. 112–9|page=30|date=2013}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[1882 transit of Venus|Transit of Venus]], second and last of the [[19th century]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-03|title=The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882, Including San Antonio|url=http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212432/http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; The [[Washington Monument]] in Washington, D.C., is completed.
*[[1897]] &ndash; London becomes the world's first city to host licensed [[taxicab]]s.