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===1601–1900===
*[[1613]] &ndash; The [[Globe Theatre#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres|Globe Theatre]] in London, built by [[William Shakespeare]]{{'s}} [[playing company]], the [[Lord Chamberlain's Men]], burns to the ground.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nagler |first=A.M. |title=Shakespeare's Stage |location=New Haven, Conn. |publisher=Yale University Press |date=1959 |oclc=317900379 |page=8}}</ref>
*[[1620]] &ndash; English crown bans [[History_of_tobacco#European_usage|tobacco growing in England]], giving the [[Virginia Company]] a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jacques |last=Legrand |title=Chronicle of the World |publisher=Ecam Publication |year=1989 |page=238 |isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref> 
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[Charles I of England]] defeats a [[Roundhead|Parliamentarian]] detachment at the [[Battle of Cropredy Bridge]].
*[[1659]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Konotop (1659)|Battle of Konotop]] the Ukrainian armies of [[Ivan Vyhovsky]] defeat the Russians led by [[Aleksey Trubetskoy|Prince Trubetskoy]].
*[[1764]] &ndash; One of the [[1764 Woldegk tornado|strongest tornadoes in history]] strikes [[Woldegk]], Germany, killing one person while leveling numerous mansions with winds estimated greater than {{convert|300|mph|km/h}}.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bernold Feuerstein |author2=Thilo Kühne |title=A violent tornado in mid-18th century Germany: the Genzmer Report |journal=ECSS 2015 - European Conference on Severe Storms at: Wiener Neustadt, Austria |date=September 2015 |volume=8 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3733.8085 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281862975 |access-date=28 January 2023 |publisher=European Severe Storms Laboratory}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Alexander Macdonell (bishop of Kingston)|Alexander Macdonell]] and over five hundred [[Roman Catholic]] highlanders leave Scotland to settle in [[Glengarry County, Ontario]].
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1806–12)|Russo-Turkish War]]: Admiral [[Dmitry Senyavin]] destroys the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] fleet in the [[Battle of Athos]].
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Autocephaly]] officially granted by the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] to the [[Church of Greece]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; At least 99 people, mostly [[German people|German]] and [[Polish people|Polish]] [[Immigration|immigrants]], are killed in Canada's worst [[St-Hilaire train disaster|railway disaster]] after a train fails to stop for an open [[drawbridge]] and plunges into the [[Richelieu River|Rivière Richelieu]] near [[Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec|St-Hilaire]], [[Quebec]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/railway-disasters |title=Railway Disasters &#124; The Canadian Encyclopedia |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; Greek politician [[Charilaos Trikoupis]] publishes a manifesto in the [[Athens]] daily ''Kairoi'' entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against [[George I of Greece|King George]]. Trikoupis is elected [[Prime Minister of Greece]] the next year.
*[[1880]] &ndash; France annexes [[Tahiti]], renaming the independent [[Kingdom of Tahiti]] as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".<ref>{{cite book |last=Fischer |first=Steven R. |title=Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island |location=London |publisher=Reaktion |date=2005 |isbn=9781861892454 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wlql7z86CsC |page=124}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; In Sudan, [[Muhammad Ahmad]] declares himself to be the [[Mahdi]], the messianic redeemer of Islam.
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[George Edward Gouraud]] records [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]'s ''[[Israel in Egypt]]'' onto a [[phonograph cylinder]], thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois|Hyde Park]] and several other [[Illinois]] townships vote to be annexed by [[Chicago]], forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.