Editing January 29 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[904]] &ndash; [[Pope Sergius III|Sergius III]] is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the [[pope|papacy]] from the deposed [[antipope Christopher]].<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Christophorus|volume=6|page=295 | quote= In January 904 [Christophorus] was treated in the same fashion by his competitor, Sergius III., who had him strangled.}}</ref>
* [[946]] &ndash; Caliph [[al-Mustakfi]] is blinded and deposed by [[Mu'izz al-Dawla]], ruler of the [[Buyid dynasty|Buyid Empire]]. He is succeeded by [[al-Muti]] as caliph of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islam: MIF-NAZ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ewpAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-09419-2}}</ref>