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★15 Sep 1791
French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.

★20 Jul 1793
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.

★10 Jul 1800
Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India.

★25 Dec 1809
American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.

★17 Oct 1814
A wooden beer fermenting vat in London burst, destroying a second vat and causing a flood of at least 128,000 imperial gallons of porter that killed eight people.

★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.

★28 May 1830
U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.

★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.

★11 Jul 1833
Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers.

★28 Aug 1833
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.

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