Editing August 5 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 25]] &ndash; [[Emperor Guangwu of Han|Guangwu]] claims the throne as [[Emperor of China]], restoring the [[Han dynasty]] after the collapse of the short-lived [[Xin dynasty]].
*[[AD 70|70]] &ndash; Fires resulting from the destruction of the [[Second Temple]] in Jerusalem are extinguished. 
* [[642]] &ndash; [[Battle of Maserfield]]: [[Penda of Mercia]] defeats and kills [[Oswald of Northumbria]].
* [[910]] &ndash; The last major Danish army to raid [[Kingdom of England|England]] for nearly a century is defeated at the [[Battle of Tettenhall]] by the allied forces of [[Mercia]] and [[Wessex]], led by King [[Edward the Elder]] and [[Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians]].
* [[939]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Alhandic]] is fought between [[Ramiro II of León]] and [[Abd-ar-Rahman III]] at [[Zamora, Spain|Zamora]] in the context of the [[Spanish Reconquista]]. The battle resulted in a victory for the [[Emirate of Córdoba]].
*[[1068]] &ndash; [[Byzantine–Norman wars]]: [[Italo-Norman]]s begin a [[Siege of Bari|nearly-three-year siege of Bari]].
*[[1100]] &ndash; [[Henry I of England|Henry I]] is crowned [[List of English monarchs|King of England]] in [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John S. Dalton|title=The Coronation Manual; and Descriptive Companion to Westminster Abbey ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyBbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA20|year=1838|publisher=Darton&Clark|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[1278]] &ndash; [[Spanish Reconquista]]: the forces of the [[Kingdom of Castile]] initiate the ultimately futile [[Siege of Algeciras (1278)|Siege of Algeciras]] against the [[Emirate of Granada]].
*[[1305]] &ndash; [[First Scottish War of Independence]]: [[John de Menteith|Sir John Stewart of Menteith]], the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture [[William Wallace|Sir William Wallace of Scotland]], leading to Wallace's subsequent execution by hanging, evisceration, drawing and quartering, and beheading 18 days later.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Traquair|title=Freedom's Sword|url= https://archive.org/details/freedomssword00pete/page/122/mode/2up|year=1998|publisher=Robert Rinehart Publishers|pages=123–124|isbn=9781570982477 }}</ref>
*[[1388]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Otterburn]], a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near [[Otterburn, Northumberland|Otterburn]].<ref name="Armstrong2013">{{cite book|author=Peter Armstrong|title=Otterburn 1388: Bloody border conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eU21CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA58|date=20 January 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-84603-770-2|pages=58}}</ref>
*[[1460]] &ndash; The Kingdom of Scotland [[Capture of Roxburgh (1460)|captures Roxburgh]], one of the last English strongholds in Scotland, following a siege.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Archibald |first1=Malcolm |title=Dance If Ye Can: A Dictionary of Scottish Battles |date=2016 |publisher=Creativia |isbn=978-1536821796 |chapter=Roxburgh Castle}}</ref>
*[[1506]] &ndash; The [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] defeats the [[Crimean Khanate]] in the [[Battle of Kletsk]].<ref>{{cite book |title= The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th–18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHrTxHmegRYC&pg=PA30 |series =The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage |first=Dariusz |last=Kolodziejczyk |publisher=BRILL |year=2011 |isbn=9789004191907 |pages=30–31}}</ref>
*[[1583]] &ndash; Sir [[Humphrey Gilbert]] establishes the first English [[colony]] in North America, at what is now [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]].
*[[1600]] &ndash; The [[John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie#Gowrie conspiracy|Gowrie Conspiracy]] against [[James VI and I|King James VI of Scotland]] (later to become King James I of England) takes place at [[Gowrie House (Perth, Scotland)]].<ref>Jenny Wormald, "The Gowrie Conspiracy", Miles Kerr-Peterson & Steven J. Reid, ''James VI and Noble Power'' (Routledge, 2017), pp. 194–206.</ref>