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★09 Jul 1745
War of the Austrian Succession: The French victory in the Battle of Melle enabled their subsequent capture of Ghent.

★07 Oct 1763
King George III of the United Kingdom issued a Royal Proclamation closing most of New France to the residents of the Thirteen Colonies and reserving it for indigenous peoples.

★04 May 1776
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown.

★28 Jun 1776
American Revolutionary War: The South Carolina militia repelled a British attack on Charleston.

★26 Apr 1777
American Revolutionary War: Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode forty miles through the night to warn militiamen under the control of her father that British troops were planning to invade Danbury, Connecticut.

★16 Aug 1777
American Revolutionary War: The Americans, led by General John Stark, routed British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

★20 Jul 1779
Tekle Giyorgis I began the first of his six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.

★13 Aug 1779
American Revolutionary War: Off the coast of Maine, the United States suffered its worst naval defeat until the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.

★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.

★04 Aug 1796
French Revolutionary Wars: The French Army of Italy under Napoleon crushed an Austrian brigade in the Battle of Lonato.

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