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★11 Sep 1758
Seven Years' War: France repelled an invasion attempt by the British in the Battle of Saint Cast.

★13 Aug 1762
Anglo-Spanish War: The United Kingdom captured Havana after a five-week siege, holding it until the Treaty of Paris the following year.

★10 Dec 1768
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.

★03 Jun 1770
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.

★13 Apr 1777
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

★06 Jul 1777
American Revolutionary War: American troops at Fort Ticonderoga in New York retreated from the advancing British forces, causing an uproar in the American public since the fort was widely believed to be virtually impregnable.

★10 Jun 1782
King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.

★17 Sep 1787
The text of the United States Constitution was finalized at the Philadelphia Convention.

★24 Apr 1800
The Library of Congress, the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

★25 Sep 1800
French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, France withdrew from its invasion of Curaçao.

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