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===Pre-1600===
* [[959]] &ndash; [[Eraclus]] becomes the 25th [[bishop of Liège]].
*[[1140]] &ndash; [[Song dynasty]] general [[Yue Fei]] defeats an army led by [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] general [[Wuzhu]] at the [[Battle of Yancheng]] during the [[Jin–Song Wars]].
*[[1169]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Blacks]]: Uprising by the [[black African]] forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against [[Saladin]].<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Lyons | first1 = Malcolm Cameron | last2 = Jackson | first2 = D. E. P. | year = 1982 | title = Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | url =  {{Gbooks|hGR5M0druJIC|plainurl=yes}} | isbn = 0-521-31739-8 | pages = 34–36}}.</ref>
*[[1192]] &ndash; [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] becomes ''[[Shōgun|Sei-i Taishōgun]]'' and the ''[[de facto]]'' ruler of Japan. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).<ref>{{cite book|author=Kan'ichi Asakawa|title=荘園硏究: Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfvsAAAAMAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Japan Society for the Promotion of Science|page=280}}</ref>
*[[1331]] &ndash; King [[Stefan Dečanski|Stefan Uroš III]], after [[Serbian civil war of 1331|months of anarchy]], surrenders to his son and rival [[Stefan Dušan]], who succeeds as [[Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|King of Serbia]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&pg=PA843|year=1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-041-4|pages=843}}</ref>
*[[1415]] &ndash; [[Henry the Navigator]] leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the [[Conquest of Ceuta]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Aileen Gallagher|title=Prince Henry, the Navigator: Pioneer of Modern Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYUVGuifR4EC&pg=PA38|year=2003|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8239-3621-2|pages=38}}</ref>