Editing February 23 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[303]] &ndash; [[Roman emperor]] [[Diocletian]] orders the destruction of the Christian church in [[Nicomedia]], beginning eight years of [[Diocletianic Persecution]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Wang |title=Christianity and Imperial Culture: Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century and their Latin Patristic Equivalent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9XzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |date=26 January 1998 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-32000-0 |pages=16 |access-date=20 February 2019 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801132818/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9XzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[532]] &ndash; [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Justinian I]] lays the foundation stone of a new [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] [[basilica]] in [[Constantinople]] &ndash; the [[Hagia Sophia]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Edith A. Browne |title=Romanesque Architecture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7u0QekMlCZwC |year=1912 |publisher=A. and C. Black |access-date=2021-02-23 |archive-date=2021-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114040446/https://books.google.com/books?id=7u0QekMlCZwC |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[628]] &ndash; [[Khosrow II]], last Sasanian shah of Iran, is overthrown.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Walter E. Kaegi|title=Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&pg=PA174|date=27 March 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81459-1|pages=174–|access-date=2 August 2021|archive-date=2 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802171450/https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&pg=PA174|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[705]] &ndash; Empress [[Wu Zetian]] abdicates the throne, restoring the [[Tang dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|author=International Association of Buddhist Studies|title=The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=frIEAAAAYAAJ|year=2002|publisher=International Association of Buddhist Studies|page=33|access-date=2021-08-02|archive-date=2021-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802171449/https://books.google.com/books?id=frIEAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1455]] &ndash; Traditionally the date of publication of the [[Gutenberg Bible]], the first [[Western culture|Western]] [[book]] printed with [[movable type]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Los Angeles School Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eURnw3pgQ7wC|year=1930|publisher=Education Associations of Los Angeles|page=10|access-date=2021-08-02|archive-date=2021-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802170912/https://books.google.com/books?id=eURnw3pgQ7wC|url-status=live}}</ref>