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===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] &ndash; The city of [[Belém]], Brazil is founded on the [[Amazon River]] delta by Portuguese captain [[Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Henderson|first1=James D.|last2=Delpar|first2=Helen|last3=Brungardt|first3=Maurice P.|last4=Weldon|first4=Richard N.|title=A Reference Guide to Latin American History|location=Armonk, N.Y.|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|date=2000|isbn=9781563247446|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2F7c0wW7g4C|page=95}}</ref>
*[[1792]] &ndash; Federalist [[Thomas Pinckney]] appointed first U.S. minister to Britain.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle Publication|date=1989|isbn=0131337459|page=208}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[John Rennie the Elder|John Rennie]]'s scheme to defend [[St Mary's Church, Reculver]], founded in 669, from [[coastal erosion]] is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of [[Anglo-Saxon architecture]] and [[Anglo-Saxon art|sculpture]].<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Storm and tide|work=The Literary Panorama|date=March 1808|at=cols. 1309–10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1309|oclc=7687961}}</ref>
*  1808 &ndash; The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the [[Wernerian Natural History Society]], a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stark|first=James|title=Picture of Edinburgh: Containing a Description of the City and Its Environs|location=Edinburgh|publisher=J. Fairbairn|date=1825|oclc=977450766|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul4LAAAAYAAJ|page=194}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; The [[Sicilian revolution of 1848|Palermo rising]] takes place in [[Sicily]] against the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Goldstein|first=Robert J.|title=Political Repression in 19th Century Europe. Volume 24|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2010|isbn=9780415555647|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYLR_ewddRoC|page=184}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Royal Aeronautical Society]] is formed in London.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bearman|first=Peter|title=Foreword|journal=The Aeronautical Journal|volume=120|issue=1223|date=January 2016|page=1|doi=10.1017/aer.2015.1|s2cid=112404040 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Yohannes IV]] is crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] in [[Axum]], the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.<ref>{{cite book|last=Henze|first=Paul B.|title=Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2000|isbn=9781403967435|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VYBDgAAQBAJ|page=146}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|The National Trust]] is founded in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=David|title=A History of Nature Conservation in Britain|location=London|publisher=Routledge|date=1997|isbn=9780415144919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFeKAgAAQBAJ|page=42}}</ref>