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

★30 Oct 1806
War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia, surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.

★09 Jun 1815
The Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.

★08 May 1821
Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers.

★01 Dec 1822
Pedro I was formally crowned the first Emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday.

★09 Dec 1822
In a memoir read to the French Academy of Sciences, Augustin-Jean Fresnel coined the terms linear, circular, and elliptical polarization, and reported a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.

★02 Dec 1823
U.S. President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.

★24 Apr 1837
A fire broke out in the Indian city of Surat, destroying 9,737 homes, about three-fourths of the city.

★03 May 1845
A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merged to form the city of Milwaukee.

★08 Nov 1861
American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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