Editing December 5 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[63 BC]] &ndash; [[Cicero]] gives the fourth and final of the [[Catiline Orations]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Bishop |editor-first1=J. Remsen |editor-last2=King |editor-first2=Frederick Alwin |editor-last3=Helm |editor-first3=Nathan Wilbur |title=Cicero: Ten Orations and Selected Letters |location=New York |publisher=American Book Co. |date=1912 |oclc=4713150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4UXAAAAIAAJ |page=88}}</ref>
* [[633]] &ndash; [[Fourth Council of Toledo]] opens, presided over by [[Isidore of Seville]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Schaff |first=Philip |title=History of the Christian Church. Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity, from Gregory I to Gregory VII, A.D. 590-1073 |location=Grand Rapids, Mich. |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans |date=1910 |oclc=4306917 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0yktsqpvS4C |page=663}}</ref>
*[[1033]] &ndash; The [[1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake|Jordan Rift Valley earthquake]] destroys [[List of largest cities in the Levant region by population|multiple cities]] across the [[Levant]], triggers a [[tsunami]] and kills many.<ref name="Kallner-Amiran">{{cite journal |last1=Kallner-Amiran |first1=D. H. |title=A Revised Earthquake-Catalogue of Palestine |date=1950 |publisher=Israel Exploration Society |pages=223–246 |issue=4 |volume=1 |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |jstor=27924451 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27924451.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724062529/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27924451.pdf |archive-date=2022-07-24 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1082]] &ndash; [[Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona]] is assassinated, most likely by his brother, [[Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona|Berenguer Ramon II]].<ref>{{cite book |translator-last=Nelson |translator-first=Lynn H. |title=The Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña: A Fourteenth-Century Official History of the Crown of Aragon |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |date=1991 |isbn=9780812213522 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVml0pDn2LoC |pages=48–49, 119 fn.176}}</ref>
*[[1408]] &ndash; Seeking to resubjugate [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]], Emir [[Edigu]] of the [[Golden Horde]] reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kwanten |first=Luc |title=Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500-1500 |location=Leicester, U.K. |publisher=Leicester University Press |date=1979 |isbn=9780718511807 |page=265}}</ref>
*[[1456]] &ndash; The first of [[1456 Central Italy earthquakes|two earthquakes]] measuring {{M|w}} 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people.<ref name="Nunziata">{{cite journal |author1=C. Nunziata |author2=M. R. Costanzo |title=Ground Shaking Scenario at the Historical Center of Napoli (Southern Italy) for the 1456 and 1688 Earthquakes |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics |date=2020 |volume=177 |issue=7 |pages=3175–3190 |doi=10.1007/s00024-020-02426-y |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-020-02426-y |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |bibcode=2020PApGe.177.3175N |s2cid=210975336}}</ref>
*[[1484]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent VIII]] issues the ''[[Summis desiderantes affectibus]]'', a [[papal bull]] that deputizes [[Heinrich Kramer]] and [[Jacob Sprenger]] as [[inquisition|inquisitors]] to root out alleged [[witchcraft]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite book |last=Quaife |first=G.R. |title=Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=1987 |isbn=9780312004750 |page=21}}</ref>
*[[1496]] &ndash; King [[Manuel I of Portugal]] issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from the country.<ref>{{cite book |last=Soyer |first=Francis |title=Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7) |location=Boston |publisher=Brill |date=2014 |isbn=9789004162624 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTSwCQAAQBAJ |pages=187–190}}</ref>
*[[1560]] &ndash; Thirteen-year-old [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]] becomes king of France, with Queen Mother [[Catherine de' Medici]] as regent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Garrisson |first=Janine |translator-last=Rex |translator-first=Richard |title=A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598: Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion |location=Basingstoke, U.K. |publisher=Macmillan |date=1995 |isbn=9780333604595 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5FKEAAAQBAJ |page=226}}</ref>
*[[1578]] &ndash; Sir [[Francis Drake]], after sailing through [[Strait of Magellan]], raids [[Valparaiso]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Marley |last=David F. |title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present |location=Oxford, U.K. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=1998 |isbn=9780874368376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdvp3cGJUZoC |pages=68–69}}</ref>