Editing December 6 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1060]] &ndash; [[Béla I of Hungary|Béla I]] is crowned king of [[Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages|Hungary]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steinhübel|first=Ján|title=The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia|location=Leiden, Netherlands|publisher=Brill|date=2021|isbn=9789004437821|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqUPEAAAQBAJ|page=447}}</ref>
*[[1240]] &ndash; [[Mongol invasion of Rus']]: [[Kyiv]], defended by [[Voivode Dmytro]], [[Siege of Kiev (1240)|falls]] to the [[Mongols]] under [[Batu Khan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Langer|first=Lawrence|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia|location=Lanham. Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2021|isbn=9781538119419|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I6EAAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1492]] &ndash; After exploring the island of [[Cuba]] (which he had mistaken for [[Japan]]) for gold, [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on an island he names [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Robert John|title=The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America: 1492—1810|location=Liverpool, U.K.|publisher=Liverpool University Press|date=1997|isbn=9780853235521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHRvEAAAQBAJ|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1534]] &ndash; The city of [[Quito]] in [[Ecuador]] is founded by Spanish settlers led by [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Newson|first=Linda A.|title=Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador|location=Norman, Okla.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=1995|isbn=9780806126975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6oBA7UsdawC|page=174}}</ref>