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★26 Jan 1788
Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson in present-day Sydney, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

★25 Apr 1792
The French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by guillotine.

★01 Jun 1794
The Glorious First of June, the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars, was fought.

★25 Dec 1815
The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, made its debut at King's Chapel in Boston.

★14 Aug 1842
American Indian Wars: American general William J. Worth declared the Second Seminole War to be over.

★22 May 1844
In Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared himself to be a messenger of God to Mullá Husayn, leading to the foundation of Bábism, considered to be a precursor to the Baháʼí Faith.

★03 May 1845
A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merged to form the city of Milwaukee.

★14 Jun 1846
Anglo-American settlers in Sonoma, California, began a rebellion against Mexico, proclaiming the California Republic and eventually raising a homemade flag with a bear and star.

★12 Jun 1864
Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.

★06 Nov 1865
Months after the end of the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.

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