Editing January 10 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[49 BC]] &ndash; [[Julius Caesar]] crosses the [[Rubicon]], signalling the start of [[Caesar's Civil War|civil war]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Adrian Goldsworthy |title=Caesar's Civil War 49-44 BC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=199JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |date=4 December 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-88181-8 |pages=14}}</ref>
*[[AD 9|9]] &ndash; The Western [[Han dynasty]] ends when [[Wang Mang]] claims that the divine [[Mandate of Heaven]] called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the [[Xin dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Hans Bielenstein |title=The Restoration of the Han Dynasty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOVWmju9U5QC |year=1954 |publisher=Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities |page=160}}</ref>
*[[AD 69|69]] &ndash; [[Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus]] is appointed by [[Galba]] as [[Caesar (title)|deputy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Simon Hornblower |author2=Antony Spawforth |author3=Esther Eidinow |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 |date=29 March 2012 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |pages=270}}</ref>
* [[236]] &ndash; [[Pope Fabian]] succeeds [[Pope Anterus|Anterus]] to become the twentieth pope of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Aubrey Attwater |title=A Dictionary of Popes: From Peter to Pius XII. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVmcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |year=1939 |isbn=978-0-19-929581-4 |pages=13|publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>
*[[1072]] &ndash; [[Robert Guiscard]] conquers [[Palermo]] in Sicily for the Normans.<ref>{{cite book |author=Marjorie Chibnall |title=Anglo-Norman Studies XV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlBTqnrcrIC&pg=PA53 |year=1993 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd |isbn=978-0-85115-336-0 |pages=53}}</ref>
*[[1430]] &ndash; [[Philip the Good]], the [[Duke of Burgundy]], establishes the [[Order of the Golden Fleece]], the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive [[order of chivalry]] in the world.<ref name="Gibbons2013">{{cite book |last=Gibbons |first=Rachel |title=Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_rHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT65 |access-date=2018-07-30 |date=2013-01-18 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-84779-258-7 |page=65 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[1475]] &ndash; [[Stephen III of Moldavia]] defeats the [[Ottoman Empire]] at the [[Battle of Vaslui]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Kurt W. Treptow |title=Dracula: Essays on the Life and Times of Vlad Țepeș |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXVpAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=East European Monographs |isbn=978-0-88033-220-0 |page=21}}</ref>