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===Pre-1600===
* [[438]] &ndash; [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] emperor [[Theodosius II]] publishes the law codex [[Codex Theodosianus]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Codex_Theodosianus.html |title=LacusCurtius • Roman Law — Theodosian Code (Smith's Dictionary, 1875)<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2021-02-19 |archive-date=2022-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215150614/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA%2A/Codex_Theodosianus.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[590]] &ndash; [[Khosrau II]] is crowned king of [[Sassanid dynasty|Persia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Asia Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-dtAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Wayne State University Press|page=40|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-date=2020-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116185843/https://books.google.com/books?id=p-dtAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[706]] &ndash; [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] emperor [[Justinian II]] has his predecessors [[Leontios]] and [[Tiberios III]] publicly executed in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rogge|first=Jörg|title=Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle: Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages|location=Germany|publisher=transcript|date=2017|isbn=9783837637830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmhLDwAAQBAJ|page=53|access-date=2021-02-15|archive-date=2022-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215150642/https://books.google.com/books?id=UmhLDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1002]] &ndash; At an assembly at [[Pavia]] of [[Lombardy|Lombard]] nobles, [[Arduin of Ivrea]] is restored to his domains and crowned [[King of Italy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)|title=Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9w1FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA324|year=1843|publisher=Longman|pages=324|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-date=2021-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225233114/https://books.google.com/books?id=9w1FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA324|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1113]] &ndash; [[Pope Paschal II]] issues ''[[Pie Postulatio Voluntatis]]'', recognizing [[Knights Hospitaller|the Order of Hospitallers]].<ref name=history>{{cite web|title=960 years of history|url=http://www.orderofmalta.int/history/639/history-order-of-malta/?lang=en|website=Order of Malta|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909235254/http://www.orderofmalta.int/history/639/history-order-of-malta/?lang=en|archive-date=9 September 2015}}</ref>
*[[1214]] &ndash; During the [[Anglo-French War (1213–1214)]], an English invasion force led by [[John, King of England]], lands at [[La Rochelle]] in [[France]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Van Cleave Alexander|title=Three Crises in Early English History: Personalities and Politics During the Norman Conquest, the Reign of King John, and the Wars of the Roses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hj6uYu0LiO0C&pg=PA94|year=1998|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-1188-6|pages=94|access-date=2019-04-04|archive-date=2022-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215150637/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hj6uYu0LiO0C&pg=PA94|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1493]] &ndash; While on board the ''[[Niña (ship)|Niña]]'', [[Christopher Columbus]] [[Columbus's letter on the first voyage|writes an open letter]] (widely distributed upon his return to [[Portugal]]) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the [[New World]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/pub/b002.html|author=Ife, Barry W.|title=Introduction to the Letters from America|publisher=King's College London|access-date=13 February 2019|archive-date=3 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203183036/http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/pub/b002.html|url-status=live}}</ref>