Editing February 17 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1370]] &ndash; [[Northern Crusades]]: [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] and the [[Teutonic Knights]] meet in the [[Battle of Rudau]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Friedrich Wilhelm|last=Barthold|title=Geschichte der deutschen städte und des deutschen bürgerthums|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VA5AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150|year=1853|publisher=T.O. Weigel|language=de|pages=150|access-date=2020-02-06|archive-date=2020-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530113743/https://books.google.com/books?id=VA5AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1411]] &ndash; Following the successful campaigns during the [[Ottoman Interregnum]], [[Musa Çelebi]], one of the sons of [[Bayezid I]], becomes [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] with the support of [[Mircea I of Wallachia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islām: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akFJAQAAMAAJ|year=1934|publisher=[[E. J. Brill]]|page=535|access-date=2020-02-06|archive-date=2020-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610111848/https://books.google.com/books?id=akFJAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1500]] &ndash; Duke [[Frederick I of Denmark|Friedrich]] and Duke [[John, King of Denmark|Johann]] attempt to subdue the [[peasant]]ry of [[Dithmarschen]], Denmark, in the [[Battle of Hemmingstedt]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Manual about Schleswig Holstein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lr1GAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Press Office of the State Government of Schleswig Holstein|page=13|access-date=2021-06-21|archive-date=2021-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205837/https://books.google.com/books?id=lr1GAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1600]] &ndash; On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at [[Campo de' Fiori]] in Rome, the philosopher [[Giordano Bruno]] has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Il Sommario del Processo di Giordano Bruno, con appendice di Documenti sull'eresia e l'inquisizione a Modena nel secolo XVI|first=Angelo|last=Mercati|journal=Studi e Testi|volume= 101}}</ref>