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★17 Jan 1773
On James Cook's second voyage, his ship HMS Resolution became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle.

★29 Jun 1776
The first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.

★03 Jan 1777
American Revolutionary War: American forces under General George Washington defeated British troops at the Battle of Princeton.

★12 Jan 1777
Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara, California, and Santa Clara University, was established.

★10 Jun 1786
A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by an earthquake ten days earlier was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people.

★25 Jul 1788
Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40, one of his two extant minor-key symphonies.

★05 Aug 1796
War of the First Coalition: The Austrian army attempted to break the Siege of Mantua, but were repelled by the French Army of Italy under Napoleon.

★09 Feb 1799
Quasi-War: The USS Constellation captured the French L'Insurgente in a single-ship action in the Caribbean Sea.

★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.

★06 Feb 1806
Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of the line engaged in the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea, the French ships Impérial and Diomède ran aground to avoid capture, but were caught and destroyed anyway.

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