Editing February 3 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1047]] &ndash; [[Drogo of Hauteville]] is [[County of Apulia and Calabria|elected as count of the Apulian Normans]] during the [[Norman conquest of southern Italy|Norman conquest of Southern Italy]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Theotokis |first1=Georgios |title=Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror |date=15 March 2021 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1-5267-4429-6 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhIZEAAAQBAJ |access-date=10 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1112]] &ndash; [[Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona]], and [[Douce I, Countess of Provence]], marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.<ref>{{cite book|author=Damian J. Smith|title=Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon: (c. 1167-1276)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEfrDPxlraYC&pg=PA27|year=2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-18289-9|page=27}}</ref>
*[[1451]] &ndash; [[Sultan]] [[Mehmed II]] inherits the throne of the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=A History of the Crusades|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DydaAAAAYAAJ|year=1975|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-299-06670-3|page=675}}</ref>
*[[1488]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeu Dias]] of Portugal lands in [[Mossel Bay]] after rounding the [[Cape of Good Hope]], becoming the first known European to travel so far south.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alex Hepple|title=South Africa, a Political and Economic History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIh0AAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=F. A. Praeger|page=30}}</ref>
*[[1509]] &ndash; The [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] navy defeats a joint fleet of the [[Ottoman Empire]], the [[Republic of Venice]], the [[Mahmud Begada|Sultan of Gujarat]], the [[Burji dynasty|Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt]], the [[Saamoothiri|Zamorin]] of [[Kozhikode|Calicut]], and the [[Republic of Ragusa]] at the [[Battle of Diu (1509)|Battle of Diu]] in [[Diu, India]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Oliver Stevens|author2=Allan Ferguson Westcott|title=A History of Sea Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQaGAAAAMAAJ|year=1920|publisher=G. H. Doran Company|page=118}}</ref>
*[[1583]] &ndash; [[Battle of São Vicente]] takes place off [[Portuguese Brazil]] where three English warships led by navigator [[Edward Fenton]] fight off three [[Spanish galleon]]s sinking one in the process.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Madoz, Richard|title=An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls Volume 147|date=1976|publisher=Hakluyt Society|location=University of Texas|page=xiii|isbn=9780904180046|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsAMAAAAYAAJ |author1-link=Richard Madox}}</ref>