Editing February 11 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[660 BC]] &ndash; Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by [[Emperor Jimmu]].<ref name=Trawicky>{{cite book |last1=Trawicky |first1=Bernard |title=Anniversaries and Holidays |date=2009 |publisher=American Library Association |isbn=978-0-8389-1004-7 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dp2TAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[AD 55|55]] &ndash; The death under mysterious circumstances of [[Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus]], heir to the [[Roman Empire]], on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for [[Nero]] to become Emperor.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=BBC History|issue=February 2020|author=Dominic Sandbrook|title=Nero assassinates his stepbrother|page=12}}</ref>
* [[951]] &ndash; [[Guo Wei]], a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new [[Later Zhou]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mote|first=Frederick W.|title=Imperial China, 900-1800|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Harvard University Press|date=1999|isbn=9780674445154|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQWW7QgUH4gC|page=95}}</ref>
*[[1144]] &ndash; [[Robert of Chester]] completes his translation from [[Arabic]] to [[Latin]] of the ''[[Liber de compositione alchemiae]]'', marking the birth of Western [[alchemy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history-science-technology.com/articles/articles+1.html|title=History Of Science And Technology In Islam|website=www.history-science-technology.com}}</ref>
*[[1534]] &ndash; At the [[Convocations of Canterbury and York|Convocation of Canterbury]], the Catholic bishops comprising the Upper House of the [[Province of Canterbury]] agree to style [[Henry VIII]] supreme head of the English church and clergy "so far as the law of Christ allows".<ref>{{cite book|last=Haigh|first=Christopher|title=English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society Under the Tudorslocation=Oxford, UK|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFmS2ng9z7wC|isbn=9780198221623|pages=106–109}}</ref>
*[[1584]] &ndash; A naval expedition led by [[Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa]] founds [[Nombre de Jesús (Patagonia)|Nombre de Jesús]], the first of two short-lived [[Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan|Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan]].<ref name=Martinic>{{cite book |last1=Martinic |first1=Mateo |author-link=Mateo Martinic |date=1977 |title=Historia del Estrecho de Magallanes |language=es |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-10441.html |location=Santiago |publisher=Andrés Bello |pages=112–119}}</ref> 
*[[1586]] &ndash; Sir [[Francis Drake]] with an English force [[Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1586)|captures and occupies]] the Spanish colonial port of [[Cartagena de Indias]] for two months, obtaining a ransom and booty.<ref name="Corbett pp.&nbsp;43–54">{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/details/drakeandtudorna00corbgoog| title = ''Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power'', Volume 2| year = 1965| publisher = New York, B. Franklin}}</ref>