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October 20

 * 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
 * 1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
 * 1883 - Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which Tarapacá Province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.