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★13 Jul 1831
Officials in Wallachia adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which engendered a period of unprecedented reforms that provided a setting for the Westernization of the local society.

★08 Sep 1831
The Russian Empire brought the Polish November Uprising to an end when its troops captured Warsaw after a two-day assault.

★01 Apr 1854
Hard times began in England.

★30 Jun 1860
Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.

★10 Aug 1861
American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.

★26 Dec 1862
American Civil War: Confederate defenders were victorious in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou as the Union Army attempted to capture the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

★04 Apr 1873
The Kennel Club, the world's oldest kennel club, was founded in the United Kingdom after Sewallis Shirley became frustrated by trying to organise dog shows without a consistent set of rules.

★26 Oct 1881
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, one of the most famous shootouts of the American Old West, took place in Tombstone, Arizona, between Ike Clanton's gang and lawmen led by Wyatt Earp.

★23 Feb 1886
American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.

★23 Dec 1888
During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh stalked his friend French painter Paul Gauguin with a razor, and then afterwards cut off the lower part of his own left ear and gave it to a prostitute.

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