Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
Happend on 17. August 1862
Indian Wars: Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. They will be overwhelmed by the U.S. military six weeks later.
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