Editing July 18 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[477 BC]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Cremera]] as part of the [[Roman–Etruscan Wars#The Fabian war with Veii in 483-476 BC|Roman–Etruscan Wars]].  [[Veii]] ambushes and defeats the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army.<ref>Livy, VI.1; Plutarch, Camillus IX; Tacitus, Histories II.91; [[Ovid]] gives a different date of 13 February in the Fasti, II.195-6</ref>
*[[387 BC]]<ref>An alternative year of 390 BC was traditionally favoured</ref> &ndash; [[Roman Republic|Roman]]-[[Gaulish language|Gaulish]] Wars: [[Battle of the Allia]]: A Roman army is defeated by raiding [[Gauls]], leading to the subsequent sacking of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Andres Furger|author2=Andres Furger-Gunti|author3=Maria Angelica Borrello|author4=Felix Müller|title=Helvetian gold: Celtic treasures from Switzerland : exhibition catalogue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zns7AQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Swiss National Museum}}</ref>
* [[362]] &ndash; [[Roman–Persian Wars]]: Emperor [[Julian (emperor)|Julian]] arrives at [[Antioch]] with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the [[Sasanian Empire|Persian Empire]].
* [[452]] &ndash; [[Sack of Aquileia]]: After an earlier [[Battle of the Catalaunian Plains|defeat on the Catalaunian Plains]], [[Attila]] lays siege to the metropolis of [[Aquileia]] and eventually destroys it.<ref>{{cite book|title=Byzantinoslavica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEdoAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Academia|page=66}}</ref>
* [[645]] &ndash; Chinese forces under general [[Li Shiji]] besiege the strategic fortress city of [[Anshan|Anshi]] ([[Liaoning]]) during the [[Goguryeo–Tang War]].
*[[1195]] &ndash; [[Battle of Alarcos]]: [[Almohad Caliphate|Almohad]] forces defeat the [[Kingdom of Castile|Castilian]] army of [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|Alfonso VIII]] and force its retreat to [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]].
*[[1290]] &ndash; King [[Edward I of England]] issues the [[Edict of Expulsion]], banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Chazan|title=The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000–1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbYAFkp8rPQC&pg=PA166|date=23 November 2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-45987-7|pages=166}}</ref>
*[[1334]] &ndash; The bishop of [[Florence]] blesses the first foundation stone for the new ''[[Bell tower|campanile]]'' (bell tower) of the [[Florence Cathedral]], designed by the artist [[Giotto|Giotto di Bondone]].<ref>{{cite book|author=G. Fattorusso|title=Wonders of Italy: the monuments of antiquity, the churches, the palaces, the treasures of art, a handbook for students and travellers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqcZAQAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=G. Fattorusso|page=215}}</ref>
*[[1389]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of France|France]] and [[Kingdom of England|England]] agree to the [[Truce of Leulinghem]], inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
*[[1507]] &ndash; In [[Brussels]], [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor#Burgundy and the Low Countries|Prince Charles I]] is crowned [[Burgundian Netherlands#Rulers|Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders]],<ref name="State2015">{{cite book|author=Paul F. State|title=Historical Dictionary of Brussels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fj19CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|date=16 April 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-7921-8|page=100}}</ref> a year after inheriting the title.
*[[1555]] &ndash; The [[College of Arms]] is reincorporated by [[Royal charter]] signed by Queen [[Mary I of England]] and King [[Philip II of Spain]].