Editing June 5 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] &ndash; The masque [[Tethys' Festival]] is performed at [[Whitehall Palace]] to celebrate the investiture of [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]].<ref>J. Leeds Barroll, ''Anna of Denmark, A Cultural Biography'' (Pennsylvania, 2001), pp. 122–6.</ref>
*[[1644]] &ndash; The [[Qing dynasty]]'s [[Manchu people|Manchu]] forces led by the [[Shunzhi Emperor]] take Beijing during the collapse of the [[Ming dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Dorothy Perkins |title=Encyclopedia of China: History and Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMQeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 |date=19 November 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-93562-7 |pages=282}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Haitian Revolution]]: [[Battle of Port-Républicain]]: British troops capture the capital of [[Saint-Domingue]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Thomas Madiou |author-link=Thomas Madiou |title=Histoire d'Haïti, Tome I |year=1847 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vN4CAAAAYAAJ&q=Histoire+d'Haiti,+Volume+1+Par+Thomas+Madiou&pg=PA363 |language=French |pages=186–188}}</ref>
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Battle of New Ross (1798)|Battle of New Ross]]: The attempt to spread the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|United Irish Rebellion]] into [[Munster]] is defeated.
*[[1817]] &ndash; The first [[Great Lakes]] steamer, the [[PS Frontenac|''Frontenac'']], is launched.
*[[1829]] &ndash; {{HMS|Pickle}} captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of [[Cuba]].
*[[1832]] &ndash; The [[June Rebellion]] breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of [[Louis Philippe]].
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Houston]] is incorporated by the [[Republic of Texas]].
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Denmark]] becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]] by the signing of a new [[Constitution of Denmark|constitution]].
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s anti-[[slavery]] serial, ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'', or ''Life Among the Lowly'', starts a ten-month run in the ''National Era'' [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] newspaper.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kenneth M. Price |author2=Susan Belasco Smith |title=Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-century America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HW9sLYfukkAC&pg=PA87 |year=1995 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |isbn=978-0-8139-1629-3 |pages=87}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; As the [[Treaty of Saigon (1862)|Treaty of Saigon]] is signed, ceding parts of southern [[Vietnam]] to France, the guerrilla leader [[Trương Định]] decides to defy Emperor [[Tự Đức]] of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Piedmont]]: [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces under [[General]] [[David Hunter]] defeat a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] army at [[Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia|Piedmont, Virginia]], taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
*[[1873]] &ndash; Sultan [[Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar]] closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.<ref>Christopher Lloyd, ''The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century'', 1968, pp 264–268</ref> 
*[[1883]] &ndash; The first regularly scheduled [[Orient Express]] departs Paris.
*[[1888]] &ndash; The [[1888 Río de la Plata earthquake|Rio de la Plata earthquake]] takes place.
*[[1893]] &ndash; The trial of [[Lizzie Borden]] for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Second Boer War]]: British soldiers take [[Pretoria]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Craig Wilcox |title=Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899–1902 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ftyAAAAMAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-551637-1 |pages=84–85}}</ref>