Editing December 12 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[627]] &ndash; [[Battle of Nineveh (627)|Battle of Nineveh]]: A [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] army under Emperor [[Heraclius]] defeats Emperor [[Khosrau II]]'s [[Sasanian Empire|Persian]] forces, commanded by [[Rhahzadh|General Rhahzadh]].<ref>{{citation | last = Kaegi | first = Walter Emil | author-link=Walter Kaegi | title = Heraclius: emperor of Byzantium | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-0-521-81459-1|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&pg=PA161 161–162]}}</ref>
*[[1388]] &ndash; [[Maria of Enghien]] sells the lordship of [[Argos and Nauplia]] to the [[Republic of Venice]].<ref>{{cite book | chapter = The Morea, 1364–1460 | last = Topping | first = Peter | title=A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | editor-first=Harry W. | editor-last=Hazard |year=1975 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press | location = Madison, Wisconsin | chapter-url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=div&did=History.CrusThree.i0017 | isbn = 0-299-06670-3|page=153}}</ref>