Editing January 22 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[613]] &ndash; Eight-month-old [[Constantine III (Byzantine emperor)|Heraclius Constantine]] is crowned as co-emperor (''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'') by his father [[Heraclius]] at [[Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Gilbert Dagron|title=Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCnN4yAojagC&pg=PA74|date=16 October 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80123-2|pages=74}}</ref>
* [[871]] &ndash; [[Battle of Basing]]: The [[Wessex|West Saxons]] led by King [[Æthelred of Wessex|Æthelred I]] are defeated by the [[Danelaw]] [[Vikings]] at [[Old Basing|Basing]].<ref>Estimated date; {{cite book|title=The Life and Time of Alfred the Great|year = 1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGYYTMvM500C&pg=PA93|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=93}}</ref>
*[[1506]] &ndash; The first contingent of 150 [[Swiss Guard]]s arrives at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Scott's monthly journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4guAAAAIAAJ|year=1959|page=244}}</ref>
*[[1517]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire]] under [[Selim I]] defeats the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate]] and captures present-day Egypt at the [[Battle of Ridaniya]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islām: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akFJAQAAMAAJ|year=1934|publisher=E. J. Brill|page=215}}</ref>
*[[1555]] &ndash; The [[Ava Kingdom]] falls to the [[Taungoo Dynasty]] in what is now [[Myanmar]].