Editing March 10 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[241 BC]] &ndash; [[First Punic War]]: [[Battle of the Aegates]]: The [[Roman Republic|Romans]] sink the [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gaius Lutatius Catulus {{!}} Roman commander |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gaius-Lutatius-Catulus |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[298]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Maximian]] concludes his campaign in [[Africa (Roman province)|North Africa]] and makes a triumphal entry into [[Carthage]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wacher |first1=J. S. |title=The Roman World |date=2002 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=978-0-415-26315-3 |page=260 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2u4OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA260 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[947]] &ndash; The [[Later Han (Five Dynasties)|Later Han]] is founded by [[Liu Zhiyuan]]. He declares himself emperor.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dudbridge |first1=Glen |author-link=Glen Dudbridge |title=A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956) |date=2013 |publisher=[[OUP Oxford]] |isbn=978-0-19-164967-7 |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnlpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1496]] &ndash; After establishing the city of [[Santo Domingo]], [[Christopher Columbus]] departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.<ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=18|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref> 
*[[1535]] &ndash; Spaniard Fray [[Tomás de Berlanga]], the fourth Bishop of [[Panama]], discovers the [[Galápagos Islands]] by chance on his way to [[Peru]].<ref name=Leon>{{cite book |last=Leon |first=P. |year=1998 |title=The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter |editor1-last=Cook |editor2-last=Cook |translator-last1=Cook |translator-last2=Cook |location=[[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]] |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=9780822321460}}</ref>