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★28 Dec 1767
Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom at the new capital of Thonburi in present-day Thailand.

★29 Dec 1779
American Revolutionary War: British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell captured Savannah, Georgia.

★25 May 1787
Delegates from the thirteen U.S. states convened the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation.

★25 Jan 1792
Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society to seek a "radical reform of parliament", later influencing the reform movements of early 19th-century England.

★16 Apr 1799
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.

★30 Aug 1799
Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: A squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic surrendered to the Royal Navy without a fight near Wieringen.

★13 Mar 1811
Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.

★07 Sep 1812
Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée forced the Russians to withdraw at the Battle of Borodino.

★15 Jan 1815
War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.

★26 Feb 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the coast of Italy, where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.

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