Editing June 11 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1702]] &ndash; Anglo-Dutch forces [[Assault on Nijmegen (1702)|skirmish with French forces]] before the walls of [[Nijmegen]] and prevent its fall.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wijn |first=J.W. |title=Het Staatsche Leger: Deel VIII Het tijdperk van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (The Dutch States Army: Part VIII The era of the War of the Spanish Succession) |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |date=1956 |language=Dutch}}</ref>
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] leads his cantata {{lang|de|[[O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20|O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort]]}} (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV{{nbsp}}20, on the [[List of church cantatas by liturgical occasion#First Sunday after Trinity (Trinity I)|first Sunday after Trinity]], beginning his second cycle, the [[chorale cantata cycle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000023?lang=en |title=O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort BWV 20; BC A 95 |publisher=[[Bach Digital]] |date=2017 |access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref>
*[[1748]] &ndash; [[Denmark]] adopts the characteristic [[Nordic Cross flag]] later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
*[[1770]] &ndash; British explorer Captain [[James Cook]] runs aground on the [[Great Barrier Reef]].
*[[1775]] &ndash; The [[Coronation of Louis XVI]] in [[Reims]], the last coronation before the [[French Revolution]].<ref>Baker, Michael Keith. ''Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century''. Cambridge University Press, 1990. p.109</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; The [[American Revolutionary War]]'s first naval engagement, the [[Battle of Machias]], results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
*[[1776]] &ndash; The [[Continental Congress]] appoints [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston (chancellor)|Robert R. Livingston]] to the [[Committee of Five]] to draft a [[United States Declaration of Independence|declaration of independence]].
*[[1788]] &ndash; Russian explorer [[Gerasim Izmailov]] reaches Alaska.
*[[1805]] &ndash; A [[Great Fire of 1805|fire]] consumes large portions of [[Detroit]] in the [[Michigan Territory]].
*[[1825]] &ndash; The first [[cornerstone]] is laid for [[Fort Hamilton]] in [[New York City]].
*[[1837]] &ndash; The [[Broad Street Riot]] occurs in [[Boston]], fueled by ethnic tensions between [[Yankee]]s and [[Irish people|Irish]].
*[[1865]] &ndash; The Naval [[Battle of the Riachuelo]] is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo ([[Argentina]]), between the [[Paraguayan Navy]] on one side and the [[Brazilian Navy]] on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the [[Treaty of the Triple Alliance|Triple Alliance]] ([[Brazil]], [[Uruguay]], and [[Argentina]]) in the [[Paraguayan War]]. 
*[[1892]] &ndash; The [[Limelight Department]], one of the world's first [[film studio]]s, is officially established in [[Melbourne]], Australia.
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Paris–Bordeaux–Paris]], sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Hundred Days' Reform]], a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the [[Guangxu Emperor]], but is suspended by [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the [[Imperial examination]] in [[1905]].)