Editing December 22 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69]] &ndash; [[Vespasian]] is proclaimed [[Roman emperor|Emperor of Rome]]; his predecessor, [[Vitellius]], attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the [[Gemonian stairs]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Nabil|title=A Brief History of Patriarchs Coptic Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byuYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[401]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent I]] is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/64800 | title =Sant' Innocenzo I | last =Prevato | first =Franco | date =2003-08-27 | website =Santi Beati e Testimoni | language =it| access-date =20 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[856]] &ndash; [[856 Damghan earthquake|Damghan earthquake]]: An earthquake near the Persian city of [[Damghan]] kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history.<ref>{{cite book|first=Simon|last=Ross|title=Natural Hazards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTDenQB5nAC&pg=PA11|year=1998|publisher=Nelson Thornes|isbn=978-0-7487-3951-6|pages=11}}</ref>
* [[880]] &ndash; [[Luoyang]], eastern capital of the [[Tang dynasty]], is captured by rebel leader [[Huang Chao]] during the reign of [[Emperor Xizong of Tang|Emperor Xizong]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Graff|first=David|title=Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300—900|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2002|isbn=9780415239547|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpmBAgAAQBAJ|page=242}}</ref>
*[[1135]] &ndash; Three weeks after the death of King [[Henry I of England]], [[Stephen, King of England|Stephen of Blois]] claims the throne and is privately crowned [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of England]], beginning the [[The Anarchy|English Anarchy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=C.|last=Petit-Dutaillis|title=The Feudal Monarchy in France and England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXr5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-20350-3|pages=100}}</ref>
*[[1216]] &ndash; [[Pope Honorius III]] approves the [[Dominican Order]] through the papal bull of confirmation [[Religiosam vitam]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hinnebusch|first=William A.|title=Dominican Spirituality: Principles and Practice|location=Eugene, Ore.|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|date=2014|isbn=9781625644701|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dg9NBQAAQBAJ|page=44}}</ref>
*[[1489]] &ndash; The forces of the [[Catholic Monarchs]], [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand]] and [[Isabella I of Castile|Isabella]], take control of [[Almería]] from the [[Nasrid dynasty|Nasrid]] ruler of [[Emirate of Granada|Granada]], [[Muhammad XIII, Sultan of Granada|Muhammad XIII]].<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Callaghan|first=Joseph F.|title=The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=2014|isbn=9780812245875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o74FAwAAQBAJ|page=180|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Vilá|first=Jacinto Bosch|chapter=Al-Mariyya|title=Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. IV|editor-last1=Bosworth|editor-first1=C.E.|editor-last2=van Donzel|editor-first2=E.|editor-last3=Heinrichs|editor-first3=W.P.|editor-last4=Pellat|editor-first4=Ch.|location=Leiden|publisher=E.J. Brill|date=1989|isbn=9789004081185|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA575|page=577}}</ref>