Editing August 24 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[367]] &ndash; [[Gratian]], son of [[Roman emperor|Roman Emperor]] [[Valentinian I]], is named co-[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]] at the age of eight by his father.<ref>{{cite book|author=Meaghan McEvoy|title=Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367–455|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgygc7HDBt0C&pg=PA49|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-966481-8|pages=49}}</ref>
* [[394]] &ndash; The [[Graffito of Esmet-Akhom]], the latest known inscription in [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], is written.<ref>Richard Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (1999), p. 178.</ref>
* [[410]] &ndash; The [[Visigoths]] under King [[Alaric I]] begin to [[Sack of Rome (410)|pillage Rome]].
*[[1185]] &ndash; [[Sack of Thessalonica (1185)|Sack of Thessalonica]] by the Normans.
*[[1200]] &ndash; King [[John of England]], signer of the first [[Magna Carta]], marries [[Isabella of Angoulême]] in [[Angoulême Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=E. B. Pryde|author2=D. E. Greenway|author3=S. Porter|author4=I. Roy|title=Handbook of British Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA37|date= 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56350-5|pages=37}} Roger of Howden, iv, 120.</ref>
*[[1215]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent III]] issues a bull declaring [[Magna Carta]] invalid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-papal-bull-annulling-magna-carta|title=The papal bull annulling Magna Carta|website=British Library|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[1349]] &ndash; Six thousand Jews are killed in [[Mainz]] after being blamed for the [[bubonic plague]].<ref name="Tuchman">{{Cite book|last=Tuchman|first=Barbara Wertheim|title=A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmRoOIwLWhsC&pg=PT113|year=2011|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-0-307-29160-8|page=116}}</ref>
*[[1482]] &ndash; The town and castle of [[capture of Berwick (1482)|Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured]] from Scotland by an English army.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John A. Wagner|author2=Edward Ed Wagner|title=Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubXnWRMt6uoC&pg=PA29|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-358-8|page=29}}</ref>
*[[1516]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire]] under [[Selim I]] defeats the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate]] and captures present-day Syria at the [[Battle of Marj Dabiq]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Avraham Daṿid|title=To come to the land: immigration and settlement in sixteenth-century Eretz-Israel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLttAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-0935-0|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1561]] &ndash; [[William the Silent|Willem of Orange]] marries duchess [[Anna of Saxony]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Story of William the Silent and the Netherland War: 1555–1584|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g35AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62|year=1869|publisher=D. Lothrop & Co.|pages=62}}</ref>