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French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy
First Barbary War: The Barbary corsairs of Tripoli declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff in fr
The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically importa
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the coun
French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Seco
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the Fre
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the Fre
French Revolutionary Wars: A British fleet captured six French ships of the line in a naval battle off Ushant that came
The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland
Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy claimed the land around Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britai
The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ratified the first codified national constitution in Europe
The Ladies of Trenton social club hosted a reception for President-elect George Washington as he journeyed to New York C
Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander Willia
George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New
The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the Un
Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean