Person report

★17 Sep 1793
War of the Pyrenees: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of Catalonia, marking the high point of the Spanish invasion of Roussillon.

★16 Oct 1793
War of the First Coalition: Despite leading French forces to victory in the Battle of Wattignies, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan was later forcibly discharged from the army due to interference from Lazare Carnot.

★17 Jun 1795
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.

★19 Jun 1800
War of the Second Coalition: General Jean Victor Marie Moreau led French forces to victory in the Battle of Höchstädt, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.

★05 Jun 1832
The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising, broke out in Paris.

★10 Feb 1840
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal, becoming prince-consort.

★23 May 1844
Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad Shírází proclaimed that he was "the Báb", after a Shia religious concept, marking the beginning of Bábism, the forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith.

★15 May 1864
American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

★20 Jan 1877
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers declaring the need for political reforms that the Ottoman Empire refused to undertake, which later led to the Russo-Turkish War.

★10 Dec 1884
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada.

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