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★07 Jun 1628
The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of the subject, was granted royal assent by Charles I.

★22 Oct 1633
Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War more than two hundred years later.

★10 Jul 1645
English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the West of England.

★14 Feb 1655
Arauco War: A series of coordinated Mapuche attacks took place against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.

★28 Oct 1664
The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, the forerunner to the Royal Marines, was established at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company in London.

★07 Nov 1665
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.

★06 Jun 1674
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.

★19 Sep 1676
During Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon burned the colonial capital of Jamestown to the ground.

★25 Nov 1678
Trunajaya rebellion: After a series of difficult marches, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri in eastern Java.

★07 May 1685
Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces prevailed over Venetian irregulars in the Battle on Vrtijeljka.

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