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★29 Apr 1770
British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour, the first European ship to land in eastern Australia, reached the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.

★29 Oct 1787
The opera Don Giovanni, based on Don Juan, the legendary fictional libertine, and composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague.

★16 Jul 1790
U.S. President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.

★01 Mar 1805
Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate.

★08 Jul 1808
Joseph Bonaparte approved the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain during the Peninsular War.

★10 Apr 1809
Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when Austria invaded Bavaria.

★07 Mar 1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon's army forced Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's Russian troops to withdraw from the Chemin des Dames, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.

★29 Jul 1818
French physicist Augustin Fresnel submitted his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", providing strong support for the wave theory of light.

★24 Feb 1822
The first Swaminarayan temple, Swaminarayan Mandir in present-day Ahmedabad, India, was inaugurated.

★11 Feb 1823
About 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti on the last day of the Maltese Carnival in Valletta, Malta.

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