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★07 Jul 1798
Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the Quasi-War, an undeclared war fought entirely at sea.

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

★03 Dec 1800
War of the Second Coalition: French forces defeated the Austrians and Bavarians in Hohenlinden, near Munich, forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice.

★21 Oct 1805
Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson signalled "England expects that every man will do his duty" to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.

★25 May 1810
The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.

★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.

★02 Dec 1823
U.S. President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.

★19 Dec 1828
Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest the Tariff of 1828.

★21 Jul 1831
Following the Belgian Revolution, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first king of the Belgians at the Place Royale in Brussels.

★08 Sep 1860
The paddle steamer Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.

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