Editing July 6 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[371 BC]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Leuctra]] shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Leuctra |volume=16 |page=504 |first=Maximilian |last=Caspari}}</ref>
* [[640]] &ndash; [[Battle of Heliopolis]]: The Muslim Arab army under [['Amr ibn al-'As]] defeat the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] forces near [[Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)|Heliopolis]] ([[Diocese of Egypt (Late Antiquity)|Egypt]]).
*[[1253]] &ndash; [[Mindaugas]] is crowned King of [[Lithuania]].
*[[1348]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement VI]] issues a [[papal bull]] [[Antisemitism#Persecutions during the Middle Ages|protecting]] the [[Jews in the Middle Ages#Black Death|Jews accused]] of having caused the [[Black Death]].
*[[1411]] &ndash; [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]]'s Admiral [[Zheng He]] returns to [[Nanjing]] after the [[Ming treasure voyages#Third voyage|third treasure voyage]] and presents the [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]] king, captured during the [[Ming–Kotte War]], to the [[Yongle Emperor]].
*[[1415]] &ndash; [[Jan Hus]] is condemned by the assembly of the council in the [[Konstanz Minster|Konstanz Cathedral]] as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake.<ref name="Schaff">Schaff, David Schley, ''John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years'', (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915), p. 257</ref>
*[[1438]] &ndash; A temporary compromise between the [[Transylvanian peasant revolt|rebellious Transylvanian peasants]] and the noblemen is signed in [[Kolozsmonostor Abbey]].
*[[1483]] &ndash; [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] and [[Anne Neville]] are crowned King and Queen of England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Neville, wife of Richard III |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/anne-neville-wife-of-richard-iii |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=8 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1484]] &ndash; Portuguese sea captain [[Diogo Cão]] finds the mouth of the [[Congo River]].
*[[1495]] &ndash; [[First Italian War]]: [[Battle of Fornovo]]: [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]] defeats the [[Italian War of 1494–98|Holy League]].
*[[1536]] &ndash; The explorer [[Jacques Cartier]] lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Eca, Publication|year=1989|page=488|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref> 
*[[1557]] &ndash; [[Philip II of Spain|King Philip II of Spain]], consort of [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary I of England]], sets out from [[Dover]] to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the city of [[Calais]], the last [[Countries of the United Kingdom|English]] possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
*[[1560]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Edinburgh]] is signed by Scotland and England.
*[[1573]] &ndash; [[Córdoba, Argentina]], is founded by [[Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera]].
*  1573   &ndash; [[French Wars of Religion]]: [[Siege of La Rochelle (1572–73)|Siege of La Rochelle]] ends.