Editing June 3 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish [[galley]]s, and captures a large Portuguese [[carrack]] at the [[Battle of Sesimbra Bay]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodger|first=N.A.M.|title=The Safeguard of the Sea|date=17 November 1999|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-31960-6|page=292|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNKKupCv4VwC&q=1602+leveson+carrack&pg=RA3-PR35}}</ref>
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Samuel de Champlain]] lands at [[Tadoussac, Quebec]], in the course of his third voyage to [[New France]], and begins erecting fortifications.<ref>{{cite book|title=Canadian Social Trends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U25-XeXgGhAC|year=2006|publisher=Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada|page=62}}</ref>
*[[1621]] &ndash; The [[Dutch West India Company]] receives a charter for [[New Netherland]].
*[[1658]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VII]] appoints [[François de Laval]] [[Apostolic vicariate|vicar apostolic]] in New France.
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[James II of England|James Stuart, Duke of York]] (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch [[Naval fleet|fleet]] off the coast of [[Lowestoft]].
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Jack Jouett]] begins his midnight ride to warn [[Thomas Jefferson]] and the Virginia legislature of an impending British raid. 
*[[1839]] &ndash; In [[Humen (town)|Humen, China]], [[Lin Zexu]] destroys 1.2&nbsp;million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a ''casus belli'' to open hostilities, resulting in the [[First Opium War]].
*[[1844]] &ndash; The last pair of [[great auk]]s is killed.<ref name="newton">{{cite journal|last=Newton|first=Alfred|year=1861|title=Abstract of Mr. J. Wolley's Researches in Iceland respecting the Gare-fowl or Great Auk (Alea impennis, Linn.)|journal=Ibis|volume=3|issue=4|pages=374–399|doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1861.tb08857.x|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447659}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Philippi (1861)|Battle of Philippi]] (also called the Philippi Races): [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces rout [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops in [[Barbour County, West Virginia|Barbour County, Virginia]], now [[West Virginia]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Robert E. Lee]] and his [[Army of Northern Virginia]] begin marching to invade the [[Northern United States#American Civil War|North]] for a second time, starting the [[Gettysburg campaign]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Reardon|first=Carol|date=October 2019|title=The Gettysburg Campaign|location= Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=225-226|isbn=9781316563168}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: Union forces under [[Ulysses S. Grant]] sustain heavy casualties attacking Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at the [[Battle of Cold Harbor]] in [[Hanover County, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Album of Orleans County, N.Y.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMsTnCyh4qMC&pg=PA134-IA4|year=1879|publisher=Sanford|pages=134}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the [[Cree]] leader, [[Big Bear]], escapes the [[North-West Mounted Police]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; The first long-distance [[electric power transmission]] line in the United States is completed, running {{convert|14|mi|km}} between a generator at [[Willamette River|Willamette Falls]] and downtown [[Portland, Oregon]].