Editing July 29 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[587 BC]] &ndash; The [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] [[Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)|sacks]] Jerusalem and destroys the [[First Temple]]. 
* [[615]] &ndash; [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal|Pakal]] ascends the throne of [[Palenque]] at the age of 12.
* [[904]] &ndash; [[Sack of Thessalonica (904)|Sack of Thessalonica]]: Saracen raiders under [[Leo of Tripoli]] sack [[Thessaloniki]], the [[Byzantine Empire]]'s second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
* [[923]] &ndash; [[Battle of Firenzuola]]: Lombard forces under King [[Rudolph II of Burgundy|Rudolph II]] and [[Adalbert I of Ivrea|Adalbert I]], margrave of [[March of Ivrea|Ivrea]], defeat the dethroned Emperor [[Berengar I of Italy]] at [[Firenzuola]] ([[Tuscany]]).
*[[1014]] &ndash; [[Byzantine–Bulgarian wars]]: [[Battle of Kleidion]]: [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine emperor]] [[Basil II]] inflicts a decisive defeat on the [[Bulgaria]]n army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes [[Samuel of Bulgaria|Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria]] to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on [[October 6]].
*[[1018]] &ndash; Count [[Dirk III, Count of Holland|Dirk III]] defeats an army sent by [[Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Henry II]] in the [[Battle of Vlaardingen]].
*[[1030]] &ndash; [[Earls of Lade|Ladejarl]]-[[Hereditary Kingdom of Norway|Fairhair]] succession wars: [[Battle of Stiklestad]]: [[Olaf II of Norway|King Olaf II]] fights and dies trying to regain his [[List of Norwegian monarchs|Norwegian throne]] from the [[Danes]].
*[[1148]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Damascus (1148)|Siege of Damascus]] ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the [[Second Crusade]].
*[[1565]] &ndash; The widowed [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] marries [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]], [[Duke of Albany]], at [[Holyrood Palace|Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh]], Scotland, in a [[wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry, Lord Darnley|Catholic ceremony]].<ref>Jenny Wormald, ''Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost'' (Tauris Parke, 2001), p. 153.</ref>
*[[1567]] &ndash; The infant [[James VI and I|James VI]] is [[coronation of James VI of Scotland|crowned King of Scotland]] at [[Stirling]].<ref>Alan Stewart, ''The Cradle King: A Life of James VI & I'' (London, 2003), p. 31.</ref>
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: [[Spanish Armada#Battle of Gravelines|Battle of Gravelines]]: English [[Royal Navy|naval]] forces under the command of [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham|Lord Charles Howard]] and Sir [[Francis Drake]] defeat the [[Spanish Armada]] off the coast of [[Gravelines]], France.