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===1601–1900===
*[[1663]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of England|English Parliament]] passes the [[Navigation Acts#The Navigation Acts|second Navigation Act]] requiring that all goods bound for the [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the [[Acts of Union 1707]], Scotland would be included in the Act.
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]]: The [[Battle of Killiecrankie]] is a victory for the Jacobites.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jeremy Black|title=European Warfare, 1660-1815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtyfhCBdPOEC&pg=PA107|year=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85728-173-6|pages=107}}</ref>
*[[1694]] &ndash; A [[Royal charter]] is granted to the [[Bank of England]].
*[[1714]] &ndash; The [[Great Northern War]]: The first significant victory of the [[Russian Navy]] in the [[Battle of Gangut|naval battle of Gangut]] against the [[Swedish Navy]] near the [[Hanko Peninsula]].<ref>[http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/book/chap2-2.html Vyborg and Gangut] in [http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/book/book-cont.html History of Russian Navy]</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; Founding of the [[Army Medical Department (United States)|U.S. Army Medical Department]]:  The [[Second Continental Congress]] passes legislation establishing "an hospital for [[Continental Army|an army]] consisting of 20,000 men."  
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: [[Battle of Ushant (1778)|First Battle of Ushant]]: [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] and French fleets fight to a standoff.
*[[1789]] &ndash; The first U.S. [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] agency, the [[United States Department of State#History|Department of Foreign Affairs]], is established (it will be later renamed [[United States Department of State|Department of State]]).
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Maximilien Robespierre]] is [[Thermidorian Reaction|arrested]] after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
*[[1816]] &ndash; Seminole Wars: The [[Battle of Negro Fort]] ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
*[[1857]] &ndash; Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men [[Siege of Arrah|hold out for eight days]] against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Y Wladfa|Welsh settlers]] arrive at [[Chubut River|Chubut]] in [[Argentina]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; The first permanent [[transatlantic telegraph cable]] is successfully completed, stretching from [[Valentia Island]], Ireland, to [[Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador|Heart's Content]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]: [[Battle of Maiwand]]: [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] forces led by [[Mohammad Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan)|Mohammad Ayub Khan]] defeat the British Army in battle near [[Maiwand]], [[Afghanistan]].
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Vincent van Gogh]] shoots himself and dies two days later.
*[[1900]] &ndash; Kaiser [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm&nbsp;II]] makes a [[Hun speech|speech]] comparing Germans to Huns;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Röhl |first=John C. G. |title=Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781107544192 |pages=73–95 |chapter=The Boxer Rebellion and the Baghdad railway |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139046275 |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046275.006}}</ref> for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.