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===Pre-1600===
* [[532]] &ndash; [[Nika riots]] in [[Constantinople]]: A quarrel between supporters of different [[Chariot racing|chariot]] teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople|Hippodrome]] escalates into violence.<ref>{{cite book|author=Merry Ottin|title=Land of Emperors and Sultans: The Forgotten Cultures of Asia Minor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrkqAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=125}}</ref>
* [[630]] &ndash; [[Conquest of Mecca]]: [[Muhammad]] and his followers conquer the city, and the [[Quraysh]] association of clans surrenders.<ref>''Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General'', by Richard A. Gabriel, p.176.</ref>
* [[930]] &ndash; [[Sack of Mecca]] by the [[Qarmatians]].<ref> {{Das Reich des Mahdi|pages=229–230}}</ref>
*[[1055]] &ndash; [[Theodora III Porphyrogenita|Theodora]] is crowned empress of the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref>{{citation |last= Norwich |first= John Julius |title =Byzantium: The Apogee | publisher=Penguin|location=London |year=1993 |isbn= 978-0-14-011448-5|pages=298–300}}</ref>
*[[1158]] &ndash; [[Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia]] becomes King of [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wihoda|first=Martin|translator-last=Millerová|translator-first=Kateřina|title=Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|date=2015|isbn=9789004250499|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0aGXCgAAQBAJ|page=21}}</ref>
*[[1569]] &ndash; First recorded [[lottery]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item102765.html|title=The First National Lottery|website=www.bl.uk|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-date=2016-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121143959/http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item102765.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>