Editing January 16 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1458 BC]] &ndash; [[Hatshepsut]] dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the [[Valley of the Kings]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Jone Johnson Lewis |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/how-did-hatshepsut-die-3529280 |title=How Did Hatshepsut Die?|publisher=History|date=2006|access-date=2023-10-25}}</ref>
*[[27 BC]] &ndash; [[Augustus|Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus]] is granted the title [[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]] by the [[Roman Senate]], marking the beginning of the [[Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gibbon|first=Edward|title=The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Abridged edition|editor-last=Mueller|editor-first=Hans-Friedrich|location=New York|publisher=Random House|date=2003|isbn=9780375758119|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xriVJrENcMC|page=47}}</ref>
* [[378]] &ndash; General [[Siyaj K'ak']] conquers [[Tikal]], enlarging the domain of King [[Spearthrower Owl]] of [[Teotihuacán]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Braswell|first=Geoffrey E.|title=The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction|location=Austin, Tex.|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=2004|isbn=9780292705876|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcN7AAAAQBAJ|page=339}}</ref>
* [[550]] &ndash; [[Gothic War (535–554)|Gothic War]]: The [[Ostrogoths]], under King [[Totila]], conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the [[Isauria]]n garrison.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wolfram|first=Herwig|title=History of the Goths|location=Berkeley, Calif.|publisher=University of California Press|date=1988|isbn=9780520069831|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsQxcJvaLjAC|page=358}}</ref>
* [[929]] &ndash; [[Emir]] [[Abd-ar-Rahman III]] establishes the [[Caliphate of Córdoba]].<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Callaghan|first=Joseph F.|title=A History of Nedieval Spain|location=Ithaca, N.Y.|publisher=Cornell University Press|date=1994|isbn=9780801492648|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cq2dDgAAQBAJ|page=118}}</ref>
*[[1120]] &ndash; [[Crusades]]: The [[Council of Nablus]] is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the [[Crusades|Crusader]] [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Duggan|first=Lawrence G.|title=Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity|location=Woodbrdige, Suffolk, U.K.|publisher=The Boydell Press|date=2013|isbn=9781843838654|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnTdAgAAQBAJ|page=103}}</ref>
* [[1275]] – [[Edward I of England|Edward I]] permits his mother [[Eleanor of Provence]] to expel the Jews from the towns [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], [[Marlborough, Wiltshire|Marlborough]], [[Cambridge]] and [[Gloucester]].<ref>*{{cite journal |last1=Hillaby |first1=Joe |title=The Worcester Jewry 1158-1290 |journal=Transactions of the Worcester Archaeological Society |date=1990 |volume=12 |pages=73–122; esp 112–3}}</ref>
*[[1362]] &ndash; [[Saint Marcellus's flood]] kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the [[North Sea]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Stephen Moss |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2011/jan/20/weatherwatch-grote-mandrenke |title=Weatherwatch: The Grote Mandrenke|publisher=Guardian |date=2011-01-20 |access-date=2020-06-19}}</ref>
*[[1537]] &ndash; [[Bigod's rebellion|Bigod's Rebellion]], an armed insurrection attempting to resist the [[English Reformation]], begins.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Altazin|first=Keith|date=2011|title=The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace|url=https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1542&context=gradschool_dissertations|journal=LSU Doctoral Dissertations|volume=543|pages=|via=LSU Digital Commons|postscript=none}}; {{Cite ODNB|title=Participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace (act. 1536–1537)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-95587|access-date=2021-01-15|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/95587}}</ref>
*[[1547]] &ndash; Grand Duke [[Ivan IV]] of [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]] becomes the first [[Tsar of Russia]], replacing the 264-year-old [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]] with the [[Tsardom of Russia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Payne|first1=Robert|last2=Romanoff|first2=Nikita|title=Ivan the Terrible|location=New York|publisher=Cooper Square Press|date=2002|isbn=9780815412298|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1abtsPCPm8C|page=67}}</ref>
*[[1556]] &ndash; [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] becomes King of Spain.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hume|first=Martin A.S.|title=Philip II of Spain|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan|date=1897|oclc=38863795|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TT1JAQAAMAAJ|page=49|isbn=9780598778536}}</ref>
*[[1572]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]] is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the [[Ridolfi plot]] to restore [[Catholicism]] in England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Maria|title=The Word of a Prince: A Life of Queen Elizabeth I From Contemporary Documents|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.|publisher=The Boydell Press|date=1990|isbn=9780851152615|page=211}}</ref>