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===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69|69]] &ndash; [[Otho]] seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself [[Roman emperor|Emperor of Rome]],<ref>{{cite book|author1=Fik Meijer|author2=Fredericus Joannes Antonius Maria Meijer|title=Emperors Don't Die in Bed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygQgBaVYZj8C&pg=PA37|year=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-31201-1|pages=37}}</ref> beginning a reign of only three months.
*[[1541]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] gives [[Jean-François Roberval]] a commission to settle the province of [[New France]] (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Jean Knecht|title=Francis I|date=18 February 1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0Ouk5uH0DAC&pg=PA341|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-00-122391-9|pages=34–}}</ref>
*[[1559]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] is crowned [[List of English monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[Monarchy of Ireland|Ireland]] in [[Westminster Abbey]], London.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joseph Timothy Haydn|author2=Robert Beatson|title=Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain|url=https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog|year=1851|pages=[https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog/page/n414 393]}}</ref>
*[[1582]] &ndash; [[Truce of Yam-Zapolsky]]: Russia cedes [[Livonia]] to the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Filjushkin|title=Ivan the Terrible: A Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PvRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA277|date=30 August 2008|publisher=Frontline Books|isbn=978-1-84832-504-3|pages=277}}</ref>