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===1601–1900===
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[Henry Morgan]] [[Henry Morgan's Panama expedition|captures]] [[Panama]].
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Frederick I of Prussia|Frederick I]] crowns himself King in [[Prussia]] in [[Königsberg]].
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] is the first known European to discover the [[Hawaiian Islands]], which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
*[[1788]] &ndash; The first elements of the [[First Fleet]] carrying 736 convicts from [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] to Australia arrive at [[Botany Bay]].
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Jan Willem Janssens]] surrenders the [[Dutch Cape Colony]] to the British.
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Wesley College, Melbourne|Wesley College]] is established in Melbourne, Australia.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine &#91;afterw.&#93; The Wesleyan methodist Sunday school magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA118 |year=1866 |pages=118}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm I of Germany]] is proclaimed ''Kaiser Wilhelm'' in the [[Hall of Mirrors]] of the [[Palace of Versailles]] (France) towards the end of the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. Wilhelm already had the title of [[German Emperor]] since the [[Constitution of the German Confederation 1871|constitution of 1 January 1871]], but he had hesitated to accept the title.<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Headlam |first1=James Wycliffe |editor1-last=Abbott |editor1-first=Evelyn |title=Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire |date=1899 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |page=370 |oclc=1041634868 |wslink=Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire/Chapter 14 |scan=Page:Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire (1899).djvu/426}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; Modern [[field hockey]] is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
*[[1896]] &ndash; An [[X-ray]] [[X-ray generator|generating machine]] is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.