Editing February 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[Guaraní War]]: The leader of the [[Guaraní people|Guaraní]] rebels, [[Sepé Tiaraju]], is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops.<ref>{{Cite book|title=They built Utopia : the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, 1610-1768|last=J.|first=Reiter, Frederick|date=1995|publisher=Scripta Humanistica|isbn=1882528115|location=Potomac, Md.|pages=194|oclc=32427398}}</ref>
*[[1783]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: French and Spanish forces lift the [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=MacCannell |first=Daniel S. |title=Coastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras |date=2021-06-30 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1-5267-5346-5 |location=Yorkshire |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; The [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|11th Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] is [[ratification|ratified]].
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: Napoleon finds [[Levin August, Count von Bennigsen|Bennigsen's]] Russian forces taking a stand at [[Battle of Eylau|Eylau]]. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
*[[1812]] &ndash; The strongest in [[1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes|a series of earthquakes]] strikes [[New Madrid, Missouri]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Madrid Earthquake at Mammoth Cave (1811-1812).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04sKAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=George Publishing Company|page=10|access-date=2020-01-12|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123514/https://books.google.com/books?id=04sKAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; In the [[action of 7 February 1813]] near the [[Îles de Los]], the [[frigate]]s ''[[French frigate Aréthuse (1812)|Aréthuse]]'' and [[HMS Amelia (1796)|''Amelia'']] batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
*[[1819]] &ndash; Sir [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]] leaves [[Singapore]] after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of [[William Farquhar]].
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Battle of Debre Tabor]]: Ras [[Ali II of Yejju|Ali Alula]], Regent of the [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] defeats warlord [[Wube Haile Maryam]] of Semien.
*[[1854]] &ndash; A law is approved to found the [[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]]. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
*[[1863]] &ndash; {{HMS|Orpheus|1860|6}} sinks off the coast of [[Auckland]], New Zealand, killing 189.
*[[1894]] &ndash; The [[Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894|Cripple Creek miner's strike]], led by the [[Western Federation of Miners]], begins in [[Cripple Creek, Colorado]], United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin McKie Rastall|title=The Cripple Creek Strike of 1893|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hS_LTNQRFOYC|year=1905|publisher=Colorado College|page=43|access-date=2020-01-12|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124211/https://books.google.com/books?id=hS_LTNQRFOYC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Dreyfus affair]]: [[Émile Zola]] is brought to trial for [[libel]] for publishing ''[[J'Accuse...!]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederick William John Hemmings|title=The life and times of Emile Zola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjEbAQAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Elek|page=164|isbn=9780236400553|access-date=2019-02-04|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120026/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjEbAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Second Boer War]]: [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] troops fail in their [[Battle of Vaal Krantz|third attempt]] to lift the [[Siege of Ladysmith]].
*  1900   &ndash; A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to [[bubonic plague]] in the [[San Francisco plague of 1900–1904|first plague epidemic in the continental United States]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kalisch |first=Philip A. |title=The Black Death in Chinatown: Plague and Politics in San Francisco 1900–1904 |journal=Arizona and the West |volume=14 |number=2 |date=Summer 1972 |pages=113–136 |jstor=40168068|pmid=11614219 }}</ref>