Editing February 12 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1096]] &ndash; [[Pope Urban II]] confirms the foundation of the abbey of [[La Roë]] under [[Robert of Arbrissel]] as a community of [[Canon regular|canons regular]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Müller |first1=Annalena |title=From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100 |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781000436297 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk85EAAAQBAJ |page=43|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1404]] &ndash; The Italian professor [[Galeazzo di Santa Sofia]] performed the first post-mortem [[autopsy]] for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in [[Vienna]].<ref name="Rothenberg">{{cite book|last=Rothenberg|first=Kelly|title=Forensic Science|url=https://archive.org/details/forensicscience00emba|url-access=limited|chapter=The Autopsy Through History|editor=Ayn Embar-seddon, Allan D. Pass|publisher=Salem Press|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/forensicscience00emba/page/n119 100]|isbn=978-1-58765-423-7}}</ref> 
*[[1429]] &ndash; English forces under Sir [[John Fastolf]] defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the [[Battle of the Herrings]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy|title=History of England from the Earliest to the Present Time: The history during the early and middle ages|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofengland01creauoft|year=1870|publisher=J. Walton|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofengland01creauoft/page/434 434]}}</ref>
*[[1502]] &ndash; [[Isabella I of Castile|Isabella I]] issues an edict outlawing Islam in the [[Crown of Castile]], forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects [[Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain|to convert to Christianity]].<ref>{{cite book|author=J. Edwards|title=Ferdinand and Isabella|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnHJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|date=11 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-89345-5|pages=100}}</ref>
*  1502   &ndash; [[Vasco da Gama]] sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from [[Lisbon]], Portugal on his second voyage to [[India]].<ref>Barros (p.268) says 1800 soldiers; Gaspar Correia (p.269) says 800 men-at-arms.</ref>
*[[1541]] &ndash; [[Santiago]], [[Chile]] is founded by [[Pedro de Valdivia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugh Raymond Spilsbury Pocock|title=The Conquest of Chile|url=https://archive.org/details/conquestofchile00poco|url-access=registration|year=1967|publisher=Stein and Day|page=[https://archive.org/details/conquestofchile00poco/page/69 69]}}</ref>
*[[1593]] &ndash; [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)|Japanese invasion of Korea]]: Approximately 3,000 [[Joseon]] defenders led by general [[Kwŏn Yul (general)|Kwon Yul]] successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the [[Siege of Haengju]].