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★16 May 1811
Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops clashed with the French at the Battle of Albuera south of Badajoz, Spain.

★13 Jan 1815
War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

★13 Feb 1815
The Cambridge Union, one of the oldest debating societies in the world, was founded at the University of Cambridge in England.

★06 Apr 1830
Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.

★11 Oct 1840
Bashir Shihab II surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan Abdülmecid I.

★28 Feb 1844
A gun on USS Princeton exploded while the warship was on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people and injuring twenty others.

★05 Apr 1847
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.

★12 Feb 1855
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United States' first agricultural college.

★15 Nov 1859
Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.

★12 Apr 1861
Confederate forces began firing at Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.

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