Editing August 7 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[461]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Majorian]] is beheaded near the river [[Staffora|Iria]] in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' [[Ricimer]].<ref>John of Antioch, ''Historia chronike'', fragment 203; Marcellinus, ''sa'' 461; ''[[Fasti vindobonenses priores]]'', No 588. [[Procopius]] (VII.14–15) does not mention the Emperor's return from Hispania and said that Majorian died of [[dysentery]]: it is possible that the news has been put about by [[Ricimer]] (Fik Meijer, ''Emperors Do not Die in Bed'', Routledge, 2004, {{ISBN|0-415-31201-9}}, p. 155). [[Victor of Tonnena]] erroneously claims that Majorian reached Rome and was killed there, and puts this event in 463 (''Chronica'', ''s.a.'' 463).</ref>
* [[626]] &ndash; The [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avar]] and [[Slavs|Slav]] armies leave the [[siege of Constantinople (626)|siege of Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Kaegi| first1 = Walter Emil| author1-link=Walter Kaegi| title  = Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium| date= 2003|page=137| publisher= CUP| isbn  = 978-0521814591| url  = https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC}}</ref>
* [[768]] &ndash; [[Pope Stephen III]] is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mann|first= Horace K.|title= The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. I: The Popes Under the Lombard Rule, Part 2 |date=1903|page=371}}</ref>
* [[936]] &ndash; Coronation of King [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I of Germany]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Reuter|first= Timothy|title= Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056|year= 1991|isbn= 978-0-582-49034-5|page=148|publisher= Longman}}</ref>
*[[1461]] &ndash; The [[Ming dynasty]] [[Military history of China before 1912|Chinese military general]] Cao Qin [[Rebellion of Cao Qin|stages a coup]] against the [[Zhengtong Emperor|Tianshun Emperor]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Robinson |first=David M. |title=Politics, Force and Ethnicity in Ming China: Mongols and the Abortive Coup of 1461 |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=59 |issue=1 |year=1999 |pages=79&ndash;123 |doi= 10.2307/2652684|jstor=2652684 }}</ref>
*[[1479]] &ndash; [[Battle of Guinegate (1479)|Battle of Guinegate]]: French troops of King [[Louis XI]] were defeated by the Burgundians led by [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg]].<ref name="Hans Delbruck">{{cite book|last=Delbruck|first=Hans|title=History of the Art of War Volume IV: The Dawn of Modern Warfare|year=1985|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln|isbn=0-8032-6586-7|pages=4–7}}</ref>