Editing October 28 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1628]] &ndash; [[French Wars of Religion]]: The [[Siege of La Rochelle]] ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
*[[1636]] &ndash; The [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] votes to establish a theological college, which would later become [[Harvard University]].
*[[1640]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Ripon]] is signed, ending the hostilities of the [[Second Bishops’ War]].<ref>*{{cite thesis|last1=Gericke |first1=Bradley T |title=Civil Wars in Britain; 1640–1646 |type=PhD |publisher=U.S. Army Command and General Staff College|date=2001 |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a395649.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309234541/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a395649.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=9 March 2014}}</ref>
*[[1664]] &ndash; The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the [[Royal Marines]], is established.
*[[1707]] &ndash; The [[1707 Hōei earthquake]] causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
*[[1726]] &ndash; The novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' written by [[Jonathan Swift]] is published.
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British troops [[Battle of White Plains|attack and capture]] Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
*[[1834]] &ndash; The [[Pinjarra massacre]] occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
*[[1835]] &ndash; The [[United Tribes of New Zealand]] are established with the signature of the [[Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand|Declaration of Independence]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: A [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road|attack]] on the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] capital of [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] is repulsed.
*[[1886]] &ndash; US president [[Grover Cleveland]] dedicates the [[Statue of Liberty]].
*[[1891]] &ndash; The [[1891 Mino–Owari earthquake|Mino–Owari earthquake]], the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Pyotr Tchaikovsky]]'s [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ''Pathétique'']] receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.