Editing February 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1645]] &ndash; Scotland in the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]]: [[Battle of Inverlochy (1645)|Battle of Inverlochy]].<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=BTL24 |desc=Battle of Inverlochy II|access-date=11 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[1653]] &ndash; [[New Amsterdam]] (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.<ref>{{cite book|first=Edmund Bailey|last=O'Callaghan|author-link=Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan|title=History of New Netherland Or, New York Under the Dutch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5x-a_W_C8EC&pg=PA213|year=1848|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|pages=213}}</ref>
*[[1709]] &ndash; [[Alexander Selkirk]] is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring [[Daniel Defoe]]'s adventure book ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''.
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of his [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] [[Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125|''Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin'', BWV 125]], based on [[Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin|Luther's paraphrase]] of the [[Nunc dimittis]].<ref>{{cite web
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  | title = Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 125; BC A 168
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
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  }}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; The last of the [[River Thames frost fairs]] comes to an end.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/frost-fairs|title=All the fun of the Frost Fair: why, when and how did Londoners party on the ice?|date=27 November 2018|website=Museum of London|access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Mexican–American War]]: The [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] is signed.
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Brigham Young]] declares war on [[Timpanogos]] in the [[Battle at Fort Utah]].
*[[1868]] &ndash; Pro-Imperial forces [[Fall of Osaka Castle|capture]] [[Osaka Castle]] from the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and burn it to the ground.
*[[1870]] &ndash; ''[[The Seven Brothers]]'' (''Seitsemän veljestä''), a novel by Finnish author [[Aleksis Kivi]], is published first time in several thin booklets.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seitsemän veljestä 150 juhlavuosi|url=https://www.nurmijarvi.fi/aleksis-kivi/artikkelit/seitseman-veljesta-150-juhlavuosi/|access-date=2023-02-02|website=Nurmijärvi|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; The [[National League (baseball)|National League of Professional Baseball Clubs]] of [[Major League Baseball]] is formed.
*[[1881]] &ndash; The [[Sentence (law)|sentences]] of the trial of the [[warlock of Chiloé|warlocks of Chiloé]] are imparted.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Proceso de los brujos de Chiloé |journal=Anales chilenos de historia de la medicina |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-68559.html |last=Osorio |first=Cipriano |volume=II |pages=124–162 |issue=I |year=1960 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-95073.html|title=Juicio a los brujos de Chiloé|access-date=2020-03-20|website=[[Memoria Chilena]]|publisher=[[Biblioteca Nacional de Chile]]|language=Spanish}}</ref> 
*[[1887]] &ndash; In [[Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania]], the first [[Groundhog Day]] is observed.
*[[1899]] &ndash; The Australian Premiers' Conference held in [[Melbourne]] decides to locate Australia's capital city, [[Canberra]], between Sydney and [[Melbourne]].
*[[1900]] &ndash; Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=10|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>