Editing April 27 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[247]] &ndash; [[Philip the Arab]] marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''[[Secular Games|ludi saeculares]]''.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1989|page=244|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref>
* [[395]] &ndash; Emperor [[Arcadius]] marries [[Aelia Eudoxia]], daughter of the [[Franks|Frankish]] general [[Flavius Bauto]]. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of [[Late Antiquity]].
*[[AD 711|711]] &ndash; [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania|Islamic conquest of Hispania]]: [[Moors|Moorish]] troops led by [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]] land at [[Gibraltar]] to begin their invasion of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] ([[Al-Andalus]]).
*[[1296]] &ndash; [[First War of Scottish Independence]]: [[John Balliol]]'s Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by [[John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey]] at the [[Battle of Dunbar (1296)|Battle of Dunbar]].<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=BTL31|desc=Battle of Dunbar I|access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref>
*[[1509]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] places the Italian state of [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] under [[Interdict (Catholic canon law)|interdict]].
*[[1521]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mactan]]: Explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]] is killed by natives in the [[Philippines]] led by chief [[Lapulapu]].
*[[1539]] &ndash; Official founding of the city of [[Bogotá]], New Granada (nowadays [[Colombia]]), by [[Nikolaus Federmann]] and [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]].
*[[1565]] &ndash; [[Cebu City|Cebu]] is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the [[Philippines]].
*[[1595]] &ndash; The relics of [[Saint Sava]] are incinerated in [[Belgrade]] on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier [[Sinan Pasha]]; the site of the incineration is now the location of the [[Church of Saint Sava]], one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world