Editing January 23 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[393]] &ndash; [[Roman emperor]] [[Theodosius I]] proclaims his eight-year-old son [[Honorius (emperor)|Honorius]] co-emperor.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Stephen|first2=Gerard|last2=Friell|title=Theodosius: The Empire at Bay|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1994|page=129}}</ref> 
* [[971]] &ndash; Using [[crossbow]]s, [[Song dynasty]] troops soundly [[History of the Song dynasty#Founding of the Song|defeat]] a [[war elephant]] corps of the [[Southern Han]] at Shao.
*[[1229]] &ndash; The episcopal seat is moved from [[Nousiainen]] to [[Koroinen]] (located near the current centre of [[Turku]]) by the permission of [[Pope Gregory IX]]. The date is starting to be considered as the founding of Turku.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/a/3-10607853|title=Suomen vanhin kaupunki täyttää 790 vuotta ja valkoinen risti seisoo Turun syntymämerkkinä Koroisilla – katso video|first=Minna|last=Rosvall|work=[[Yle]]|date=23 January 2019|access-date=17 August 2024|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1264]] &ndash; In the conflict between King [[Henry III of England]] and his rebellious barons led by [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]], King [[Louis IX of France]] issues the [[Mise of Amiens]], a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the [[Second Barons' War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tout|first=T.F.|title=The Political History of England. Vol. 3: From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377)|location=London|date=1920|pages=112–113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRI5AQAAMAAJ}}</ref>
*[[1368]] &ndash; [[Zhu Yuanzhang]] proclaims himself the [[Hongwu Emperor]], beginning the [[Ming dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Bowman|editor-first=John S.|title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=2000|isbn=9780231110044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkqsAgAAQBAJ|page=39}}</ref>
*[[1546]] &ndash; Having published nothing for eleven years, [[François Rabelais]] publishes the ''Tiers Livre'', his sequel to ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]''.
*[[1556]] &ndash; The deadliest [[earthquake]] in history, the [[1556 Shaanxi earthquake|Shaanxi earthquake]], hits [[Shaanxi]] province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Y-X.|last1=Hu|first2=S-C.|last2=Liu|author2-link=Liu Shaw-chen|first3=W.|last3=Dong|title=Earthquake Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suaVCkVdyuwC&pg=PA101|date=18 July 1996|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-419-20590-6|pages=101}}</ref>
*[[1565]] &ndash; The [[Deccan Sultanates]] defeat [[Rama Raya]] of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]] at the [[Battle of Talikota]], resulting in over 100,000 casualties and the destruction of the capital [[Vijayanagara]].<ref>{{cite book|author=L. P. Sharma|title=History of Medieval India (1000-1740 A.D.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18EKAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Konark Publishers|isbn=978-81-220-0042-9|page=266}}</ref> 
*[[1570]] &ndash; [[James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray]], [[regent]] for the infant King [[James VI of Scotland]], is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stewart|first=Derek James|title=The Armstrongs: The History of a Riding Family, 1040-1650|location=Salt Lake City|publisher=American Academic Press|date=2017|isbn=9781631818790|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH0uDwAAQBAJ|page=97}}</ref>
*[[1571]] &ndash; The [[Royal Exchange, London|Royal Exchange]] opens in London.<ref>{{cite book|last=Saunders|first=Ann|title=The Royal Exchange|location=London|publisher=London Topographical Society|date=1997|isbn=9780902087385|page=44}}</ref>
*[[1579]] &ndash; The [[Union of Utrecht]] forms a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] republic in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite book|first=George Henry|last=Townsend|author-link=George Henry Townsend|title=The Manual of Dates: A Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sSVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA860|year=1862|pages=860}}</ref>