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===1601–1900===
*[[1688]] &ndash; King [[Narai]] nominates [[Phetracha]] as regent, leading to the [[Siamese revolution of 1688|revolution of 1688]] in which Phetracha becomes king of the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wyatt|first=David K.|title=Thailand: A Short History|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2004|isbn=9780300084757|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8YBujWXwkakC|page=103|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Chris|last2=Phongpaichit|first2=Pasuk|title=A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2017|isbn=9781107190764|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8wnDwAAQBAJ|pages=167–172}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: The [[Russian Navy]] led by Admiral [[Fyodor Apraksin]] land both at [[Katajanokka]] and [[Hietalahti, Helsinki|Hietalahti]] during the [[Battle of Helsinki (1713)|Battle of Helsinki]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Seppo|last=Aalto|title=Kruununkaupunki – Vironniemen Helsinki 1640–1721|publisher=[[Finnish Literature Society]]|location=Helsinki|year=2015|isbn=978-952-222-675-4|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1768]] &ndash; Rioting occurs in London after [[John Wilkes]] is imprisoned for writing an article for ''[[The North Briton]]'' severely criticizing [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Massacre of St George's Fields and the petition of William Allen - News from Parliament |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/petitions-committee/petition-of-the-month/the-massacre-of-st-georges-fields-and-the-petition-of-william-allen-the-elder/ |website=UK Parliament |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803215606/https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/petitions-committee/petition-of-the-month/the-massacre-of-st-georges-fields-and-the-petition-of-william-allen-the-elder/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1773]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Great Britain]] passes the [[Tea Act]], designed to save the [[British East India Company]] by reducing taxes on its [[tea]] and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the [[Boston Tea Party]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lynch|first=Timothy J.|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2013|isbn=9780199759255|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-lMAgAAQBAJ|page=111}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] and [[Marie Antoinette]] become King and Queen of France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maior-Barron |first1=Denise |title=Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon: Heritage Interpretation and Visitor Perceptions |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-34508-8 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbJjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: A small Colonial militia led by [[Ethan Allen]] and Colonel [[Benedict Arnold]] [[Capture of Fort Ticonderoga|captures Fort Ticonderoga]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of Ticonderoga {{!}} American Revolution [1775] |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Ticonderoga |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*  1775   &ndash; American Revolutionary War: The [[Second Continental Congress]] takes place in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1775 {{!}} Timeline {{!}} Articles and Essays {{!}} Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 {{!}} Digital Collections {{!}} Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/continental-congress-and-constitutional-convention-from-1774-to-1789/articles-and-essays/timeline/1775/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=14 May 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704175242/https://www.loc.gov/collections/continental-congress-and-constitutional-convention-from-1774-to-1789/articles-and-essays/timeline/1775/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1796]] &ndash; [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Napoleon]] wins a [[Battle of Lodi|victory]] against [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian]] forces at [[Lodi, Lombardy|Lodi]] bridge over the [[Adda River, Italy|Adda River]] in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of Lodi {{!}} Italian history [1796] |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Lodi |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615004816/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Lodi |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[First Barbary War]]: The [[Barbary pirates]] of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] declare war on the United States of America.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy |url=https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/06/06a.htm |website=www.marinersmuseum.org |access-date=14 May 2020 |archive-date=9 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209071325/https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/06/06a.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1824]] &ndash; The [[National Gallery]] in London opens to the public.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Gallery {{!}} museum, London, United Kingdom |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Gallery-museum-London |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=10 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810222834/https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Gallery-museum-London |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; A [[Le Van Khoi revolt|revolt]] broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor [[Minh Mang]], who had desecrated the deceased mandarin [[Le Van Duyet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Huỳnh Minh|year=2006|title=Gia Định Xưa|place=[[Ho Chi Minh City]]|publisher=Văn Hóa-Thông Tin Publishing House|language=vi|page=133}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Panic of 1837]]: New York City banks suspend the payment of [[Coin|specie]], triggering a national banking crisis and an [[Depression (economics)|economic depression]] whose severity was not surpassed until the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pred|first=Allan R.|chapter=Large City Inter-Dependence and the Pre-electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States|title=New Urban History" Quantitative Explorations by American Historians|editor-last=Schnore|editor-first=Leo Francis|location=Princeton, N.J.|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2016|isbn=9780691645292|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H559BgAAQBAJ|pages=72–73|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Howe|first=Daniel Walkeer|title='What Hath God Wrought': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2009|isbn=9780195392432|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTzRCwAAQBAJ|pages=503–505}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Astor Place Riot]]: A riot breaks out at the [[Astor Opera House]] in [[Manhattan]], New York City over a dispute between actors [[Edwin Forrest]] and [[William Charles Macready]], killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.<ref>{{cite web |title=When New York City Rioted Over Hamlet Being Too British |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-new-york-rivalry-over-shakespeare-boiled-over-deadly-melee-180964102/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516191648/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-new-york-rivalry-over-shakespeare-boiled-over-deadly-melee-180964102/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]: In India, the first war of Independence begins. [[Sepoy]]s mutiny against their commanding officers at [[Meerut]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Mutiny {{!}} History, Causes, Summary, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Indian-Mutiny |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514063415/https://www.britannica.com/event/Indian-Mutiny |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; American Civil War: In [[Kentucky]], Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate [[Quantrill's Raiders|raider]] [[William Quantrill]], who lingers until his death on [[June 6]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Metz |first1=Leon Claire |title=The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters |date=2002 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-3021-7 |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BegmwZ3fuGUC&pg=PA200 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; The [[First transcontinental railroad]], linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at [[Promontory Summit]], [[Utah Territory]] with the [[golden spike]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=University |first1=Stanford |title=First Transcontinental Railroad and Stanford forever linked |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/ |website=Stanford News |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en |date=8 May 2019 |archive-date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512082800/https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Victoria Woodhull]] becomes the first woman nominated for [[President of the United States]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Kreitner |first1=Richard |last2=Almanac |first2=The |title=May 10, 1872: Victoria Woodhull Is the First Woman Nominated for President |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/may-10-1872-victoria-woodhull-first-woman-nominated-president/ |access-date=14 May 2020 |date=10 May 2015 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803181328/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/may-10-1872-victoria-woodhull-first-woman-nominated-president/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; The [[Centennial Exposition]] is opened in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Centennial Exposition {{!}} trade fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Philadelphia-Centennial-Exposition |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=16 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416175310/https://www.britannica.com/event/Philadelphia-Centennial-Exposition |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Carol I of Romania|Carol I]] is crowned the [[King of Romania|King]] of the [[Kingdom of Romania|Romanian Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roe |first1=Paul |title=Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-27689-9 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rxGAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; Finnish farmworker [[Karl Emil Malmelin]] kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of [[Klaukkala]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/586573/articles/114554|title=Nurmijärwen murhamies renki Karl Emil Malmelin wangittu|website=Digikansalliskirjasto|publisher=[[Uusi Suometar]]|date=25 May 1899|accessdate=29 September 2021|language=fi|archive-date=1 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101124410/https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/586573/articles/114554|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Keskisarja|first=Teemu|title= Kirves: Toivo Harald Koljosen rikos ja rangaistus|publisher=Siltala|date=2015|isbn=978-952-234-324-6|language=fi}}</ref>