Editing January 17 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[38 BC]] &ndash; [[Octavian]] divorces his wife [[Scribonia (wife of Augustus)|Scribonia]] and marries [[Livia Drusilla]], ending the fragile peace between the [[Second Triumvirate]] and [[Sextus Pompey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Anthony A. Barrett|title=Agrippina: Mother of Nero|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6SGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|date=4 January 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-61863-7|pages=16}}</ref>
*[[1362]] &ndash; [[Saint Marcellus' 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|work=The Guardian |date=2011-01-20 |access-date=2014-01-23}}</ref>
*[[1377]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XI]] reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from [[Avignon]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Philippe Levillain|title=The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VDcmDeLuV4C&pg=PA660|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92230-2|pages=660}}</ref>
*[[1524]] &ndash; [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]] sets sail westward from [[Madeira]] to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.<ref>{{cite book | title=Discoverers and Explorers | first=Edward Richard | last=Shaw | publisher=American Book Company | year=1900 | page=[https://archive.org/details/discoverersande01shawgoog/page/n109 103] | url=https://archive.org/details/discoverersande01shawgoog | quote=Verrazzano january 17. | isbn=1-4353-8990-5}}</ref>
*[[1562]] &ndash; France grants religious toleration to the [[Huguenot]]s in the [[Edict of Saint-Germain]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nolan|first=Cathal J.|title=The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Volume 2|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2006|isbn=9780313337338|pages=239–240}}</ref>
*[[1595]] &ndash; During the [[French Wars of Religion]], [[Henry IV of France]] declares war on Spain.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lesaffer|first=Randall|chapter=Between Faith and Empire: The Justification of the Spanish Intervention in the French Wars of Religion in the 1590s|title=International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations|year=2017 |editor-last1=Koskenniemi|editor-first1=Martti|editor-last2=Rech|editor-first2=Walter|editor-last3=Fonseca|editor-first3=Manuel Jiménez|location=Oxford, UK|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198795575|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGfODQAAQBAJ|page=101}}</ref>