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★08 Sep 1796
French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy.

★04 Feb 1797
The Riobamba earthquake, the most powerful in the history of Ecuador, devastated Riobamba and many other cities, causing at least 6,000 casualties.

★14 Feb 1804
Serb chieftans elected Đorđe Petrović as their leader, and began an uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

★27 May 1813
War of 1812: The troops of the U.S. Army and vessels of the U.S. Navy cooperated in a successful amphibious assault to capture Fort George in Upper Canada.

★16 Oct 1813
The Sixth Coalition attacked French forces led by Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig, the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, with over 500,000 troops involved.

★29 Jan 1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: In the Battle of Brienne, both commanders of the opposing forces, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured by their enemies.

★04 Mar 1814
War of 1812: An American raiding party defeated an attempt by British regulars, volunteers from the Canadian militia and Native Americans to intercept them near present-day Wardville, Ontario.

★16 Jun 1815
Napoleonic Wars: French forces under Napoleon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras.

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

★08 Apr 1864
American Civil War: A decisive Confederate victory in the Battle of Mansfield stopped the advance of the Union Army's Red River Campaign.

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