Editing October 4 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]] and the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: A fleet of Spanish [[galley]]s [[Battle of the Narrow Seas|are defeated]] by English and Dutch [[galleon]]s in the [[English Channel]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jaques|first=Tony |title= Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century |volume=2|year= 2006|publisher=  Greenwood Press|isbn= 978-0-313-33536-5|page=714 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&q=%22jan+van+cant%22&pg=PA714}}</ref>
*[[1636]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the [[Battle of Wittstock]].
*[[1693]] &ndash; [[Nine Years' War]]: Piedmontese troops are [[Battle of Marsaglia|defeated]] by the French.
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: Troops under George Washington are [[Battle of Germantown|repelled]] by British troops under William Howe.
*[[1795]] &ndash; Napoleon first rises to prominence by [[13 Vendémiaire|suppressing]] counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
*[[1824]] &ndash; Mexico adopts a [[1824 Constitution of Mexico|new constitution]] and becomes a federal republic.
*[[1830]] &ndash; The [[Belgian Revolution]] takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
*[[1853]] &ndash; The [[Crimean War]] begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The two-day [[Second Battle of Corinth]] ends in a [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] victory, with General [[William Rosecrans]] protecting the critical rail junction of [[Corinth, Mississippi]] from [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces under General [[Earl Van Dorn]].<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=Kristopher D.|date=2021|title=Battle Maps of the Civil War - The Western Theater|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Knox Press|page=22|isbn=978-1-68261-993-3}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; The [[Texas A&M University|Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas]] opens as the first public college in Texas.
*[[1883]] &ndash; First run of the ''[[Orient Express]].''
*  1883   &ndash; First meeting of the [[Boys' Brigade]] in Glasgow, Scotland.
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Horace Rawlins]] wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.