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===Pre-1600===
* [[395]] &ndash; [[Later Yan]] is defeated by its former vassal [[Northern Wei]] at the [[Battle of Canhe Slope]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mair|first1=Victor H.|last2=Chen|first2=Sanping|last3=Wood|first3=Frances|title=Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|date=2013|isbn=9780500251928|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agI7CwAAQBAJ|pages=70–71}}</ref>
*[[AD 757|757]] &ndash; The poet [[Du Fu]] returns to [[Chang'an]] as a member of [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Emperor Xuanzong]]'s court, after having escaped the city during the [[An Lushan Rebellion]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hung|first=William|title=Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Harvard University Press|date=1952|oclc=504032|page=121}}</ref>
* [[877]] &ndash; [[Louis the Stammerer]] (son of [[Charles the Bald]]) is crowned king of the [[West Francia|West Frankish Kingdom]] at [[Compiègne]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Duckett|first=Eleanor Shipley|title=Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century|location=Ann Arbor, Mich.|publisher=University of Michigan Press|date=1962|isbn=9780472061570|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQkkYygCpbUC|pages=275–276}}</ref>
*[[1504]] &ndash; [[Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah]] writes his [[Oran fatwa]], arguing for the relaxation of [[Fiqh|Islamic law]] requirements for the [[Forced conversion of Muslims in Spain|forcibly converted]] Muslims in Spain.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stewart|first=Devin|title=The Identity of "the Muftī of Oran", Abū l-'Abbās Aḥmad b. Abī Jum'ah al-Maghrāwī al-Wahrānī|journal=Al-Qanṭara|volume=27|issue=2|date=July–December 2006|doi=10.3989/alqantara.2006.v27.i2.2|page=269|doi-access=free}}</ref>