Editing June 8 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[218]] &ndash; [[Battle of Antioch (218)|Battle of Antioch]]: With the support of the Syrian [[Roman legion|legions]], [[Elagabalus]] defeats the forces of emperor [[Macrinus]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Braund|title=The Roman Army in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWJoAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|isbn=978-1-887829-18-2|pages=140–141}}</ref>
* [[452]] &ndash; [[Attila]] leads a [[Huns|Hun]] army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.<ref>{{cite book|first=Edwarde Arthur|last=Thompson|title=The Huns. People of Europe Series|date=4 May 1999 |publisher=Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-21443-4}}</ref>
* [[793]] &ndash; Vikings raid the abbey at [[Lindisfarne]] in [[Northumbria]], commonly accepted as the beginning of [[Norse activity in the British Isles]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Deirdre O'Sullivan|author2=Robert Young|title=Book of Lindisfarne: Holy Island|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONMWAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=B.T. Batsford|isbn=978-0-7134-7307-0|page=38}}</ref>
*[[1042]] &ndash; [[Edward the Confessor]] becomes [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of England]] &ndash; the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.<ref name="Cheney1945">{{cite book|author=Christopher Robert Cheney|title=Handbook of Dates for Students of English History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCRnAAAAMAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Offices of the Royal Historical Society|page=18}}</ref>
*[[1191]] &ndash; King [[Richard I]] of England arrives in [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], beginning the [[Third Crusade]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=McLynn |first=Frank |author-link=Frank McLynn |title=Richard and John: Kings at War |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=9780306815799 |edition=1st Da Capo Press |location=Cambridge |pages=182}}</ref>