Editing May 13 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1612]] &ndash; Sword duel between [[Miyamoto Musashi]] and [[Sasaki Kojiro]] on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end.<ref name="lowry">{{cite book |last=Lowry |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Lowry (martial arts) |date=1986 |title=Bokken: Art of the Japanese Sword |publisher=Ohara Publications |page=21&ndash;27 |isbn=978-0-89750-104-0}}</ref><ref name="scott">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=William Scott |title=The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi |date=2004 |publisher=Kodansha International |location=Tokyo |isbn=9784770029423 |page=19 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0p0C7Y8lkH8C&q=musashi+came+late+and+unkempt&pg=PA18}}</ref>
*[[1619]] &ndash; Dutch statesman [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] is executed in [[The Hague]] after being convicted of [[treason]].
*[[1654]] &ndash; A Venetian fleet under Admiral [[Cort Adeler]] breaks through a line of galleys and defeats the Turkish navy.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://nbl.snl.no/Cort_Adeler |title=Cort Adeler |first=Øystein |last=Rian |date=Feb 25, 2020 |via=Store norske leksikon}}</ref>
*[[1779]] &ndash; [[War of the Bavarian Succession]]: Russian and French mediators at the [[Congress of Teschen]] negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the [[Innviertel]]).
*[[1780]] &ndash; The [[Cumberland Compact]] is signed by leaders of the settlers in the [[Cumberland River]] area of what would become the [[U.S. state]] of [[Tennessee]], providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bays |first=Bill |title=James Robertson, Father of Tennessee and Founder of Nashville |location=Bloomington, Ind. |publisher=WestBow Press |date=2013 |isbn=9781490817156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNpXAgAAQBAJ |pages=151–152 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Hamer |first=Philip M. |title=Tennessee: A History, 1673-1932 |location=New York |publisher=The American Historical Society |date=1933 |oclc=2078145 |pages=105–107}}</ref>
*[[1804]] &ndash; Forces sent by [[Yusuf Karamanli]] of Tripoli to [[Battle of Derne|retake Derna]] from the Americans attack the city.
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[Ecuador]] gains its independence from [[Gran Colombia]].
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Mexican–American War]]: The [[United States]] [[United States declaration of war on Mexico|declares war]] on the [[Second Federal Republic of Mexico|Federal Republic of Mexico]] following a dispute over the American [[Texas annexation|annexation]] of the [[Republic of Texas]] and a Mexican military [[Thornton Affair|incursion]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Timothy J. |title=A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War With the United States |location=New York |publisher=Hill and Wang |date=2008 |isbn=9780809049677 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QRLQRK75BXgC |pages=154–156}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "[[United Kingdom and the American Civil War|proclamation of neutrality]]" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
*  1861   &ndash; The [[Great Comet of 1861]] is discovered by [[John Tebbutt]] of [[Windsor, New South Wales]], Australia.
*  1861   &ndash; [[Pakistan Railways|Pakistan]]'s (then a part of British India) [[History of rail transport in Pakistan|first railway line]]  opens, from [[Karachi]] to [[Kotri]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; The {{USS|Planter|1862|6}}, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, [[Robert Smalls]], who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
*[[1888]] &ndash; With the passage of the ''[[Lei Áurea]]'' ("Golden Law"), the [[Empire of Brazil]] abolishes [[slavery]].