Editing February 20 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1339]] &ndash; The [[Milan]]ese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of [[Lodrisio Visconti]] clash in the [[Battle of Parabiago]]; Visconti is defeated.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward|author2=William Leist Readwin Cates|title=Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1416|year=1872|publisher=Lee and Shepard|pages=1416|access-date=2019-03-07|archive-date=2022-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220084854/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1416|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1472]] &ndash; [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] are [[pawn (law)|pawned]] by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a [[dowry]] for [[Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland|Margaret of Denmark]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Donaldson|title=The Edinburgh history of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kohnAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Oliver & Boyd|page=417|isbn=9780050020388|access-date=2019-03-07|archive-date=2022-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220084907/https://books.google.com/books?id=kohnAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1521]] &ndash; Spanish conquistador [[Juan Ponce de León]] sets out from San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=12|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>
*[[1547]] &ndash; [[Edward VI of England]] is [[Coronation of Edward VI|crowned]] [[King of England]] at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite book|first=William Arthur|last=Shaw|title=The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&pg=PA150|year=1970|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-0443-4|pages=150–|access-date=2019-03-07|archive-date=2022-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131232515/https://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&pg=PA150|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1553]] &ndash; [[Yohannan Sulaqa]] professes his Catholic belief and is ordained as bishop shortly after; this marks the beginning of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Filoni |first1=Fernando |title=The Church in Iraq |date=2017 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=978-0-8132-2965-2 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xp8rDwAAQBAJ |access-date=20 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Frazee |first1=Charles A. |title=Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923 |date=22 June 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-02700-7 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6DM4szwUpEC |access-date=20 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>