Editing May 21 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1659]] &ndash; In the [[Concert of The Hague (1659)|Concert of The Hague]], the [[Dutch Republic]], the [[Commonwealth of England]] and the [[Kingdom of France]] set out their views on how the [[Second Northern War]] should end.
*[[1660]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Long Sault]] concludes after five days in which [[France|French]] [[New France|colonial]] [[militia]], with their [[Wyandot people|Huron]] and [[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] allies, are defeated by the [[Iroquois Confederacy]].
*[[1674]] &ndash; The [[szlachta|nobility]] elect [[John III Sobieski|John Sobieski]] King of Poland and Grand Duke of [[Lithuania]].
*[[1703]] &ndash; [[Daniel Defoe]] is imprisoned on charges of [[seditious libel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=La Grand|first=Virginia|title=A Spectacular Failure: Robinson Crusoe I, II, III|location=New York|publisher=Rodopi|date=2012|isbn=9789042035881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-701ccnkmW8C|pages=62–63}}</ref>
*[[1725]] &ndash; The [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]] is instituted in Russia by Empress [[Catherine I]]. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in [[1942]] as the [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]].
*[[1758]] &ndash; Ten-year-old [[Mary Campbell (colonial settler)|Mary Campbell]] is abducted in [[Pennsylvania]] by [[Lenape]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. She is returned six and a half years later.
*[[1792]] &ndash; A [[lava dome]] collapses on [[Mount Unzen]], near the city of [[Shimabara, Nagasaki|Shimbara]] on the [[Japan]]ese island of [[Kyūshū]], [[1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami|creating a deadly tsunami]] that killed nearly 15,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heimburger|first=Jean-François|title=Japan and Natural Disasters: Prevention and Risk Management|location=London|publisher=ISTE Ltd|date=2018|isbn=9781786303707|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3JyDwAAQBAJ|page=17}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; The end of the [[Siege of Acre (1799)]]: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] abandons his siege of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] city of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] after two months. This was the turning point of Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign and one of the first major defeats he suffered in his military career.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_A0kNAAAAYAAJ | title=Militär-historisches Kriegs-Lexikon (1618-1905) | date=1908 | publisher=Wien und Leipzig, C. W. Stern }}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; The first day of the [[Battle of Aspern-Essling]] between the Austrian army led by [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles]] and the French army led by [[Napoleon|Napoleon I of France]] sees the French attack across the [[Danube]] held.
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Slavery in Colombia]] is abolished.
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Lawrence, Kansas]] is [[Sacking of Lawrence|captured and burned]] by pro-[[slavery]] forces.
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] [[Battle of Plains Store|succeeds]] in closing off the last escape route from [[Port Hudson, Louisiana]], in preparation for the coming [[Siege of Port Hudson|siege]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; Russia declares an end to the [[Russo-Circassian War]] and many [[Circassians]] are forced into exile. The day is designated the [[Circassian Day of Mourning]].
*  1864   &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Battle of Spotsylvania Court House]] ends.
*  1864   &ndash; The [[Ionian Islands]] reunite with Greece.
*[[1871]] &ndash; French troops invade the [[Paris Commune]] and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "[[Bloody Week]]", some 20,000 [[communard]]s have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
*  1871   &ndash; Opening of the first [[rack railway]] in Europe, the [[Rigi Bahnen]] on [[Mount Rigi]].
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[War of the Pacific]]: Two [[Chile]]an ships blocking the harbor of [[Iquique]] (then belonging to [[Peru]]) battle two Peruvian vessels in the [[Battle of Iquique]].
*[[1881]] &ndash; The [[American Red Cross]] is established by [[Clara Barton]] in Washington, D.C.
*[[1894]] &ndash; The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] in the United Kingdom is officially opened by [[Queen Victoria]], who later [[knight]]s its designer [[Edward Leader Williams|Sir Edward Leader Williams]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodson|first=Patricia M.|title=The Manchester Ship Canal: A Guide to Historical Sources|location=Manchester, UK|publisher=Lancashire Bibliography|date=1985|isbn=9780902217140|page=iv|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|editor-last1=Brandwood|editor-first=Geoffrey K.|editor-last2=Daniels|editor-first2=Rebecca|title=Ruskin and Architecture|last=Hardman|first=Malcolm|chapter='Intellectual Lens and Moral Retina': A Reappraisal of Ruskin's Architectural Vision|location=Reading, UK|publisher=Spire Books|date=2003|isbn=9780954361518|page=219, fn. 42}}</ref>