Editing March 12 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[538]] &ndash; [[Vitiges]], [[Germanic kingship|king]] of the [[Ostrogoths]] ends his [[Siege of Rome (537–538)|siege of Rome]] and retreats to [[Ravenna]], leaving the city to the victorious [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] general, [[Belisarius]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dupuy |first1=Richard Ernest |title=The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present |date=1993 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-270056-8 |page=203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fikOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22siege+of+rome%22+%22march+12%22 |access-date=10 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1088]] &ndash; [[1088 papal election|Election of]] [[Urban II]] as the [[List of popes|159th]] [[Pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He is best known for initiating the [[Crusades]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle= Pope Bl. Urban II |volume= 15 |last= Butler |first= Richard Urban |author-link= |short=1 }}</ref>
*[[1158]] &ndash; German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as ''forum apud Munichen'' in the [[Augsburg arbitration]] by Holy Roman Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Friedrich I]].<ref name="Reitzenstein2006">{{cite book|surname1=[[:de:Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein|Wolf-Armin Freiherr von Reitzenstein]]|title=Lexikon bayerischer Ortsnamen. Herkunft und Bedeutung. Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz|publisher=[[C. H. Beck]] |location=München|at=p.&nbsp;171|contribution=München|isbn=978-3-406-55206-9|date=2006|language=de}}</ref>
*[[1579]] &ndash; Start of the [[Siege of Maastricht (1579)|Siege of Maastricht]], part of the [[Eighty Years' War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eggenberger |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSEnw1HuWUoC&pg=PA253 |title=Encyclopedia of Battles |publisher=Courier Corporation |year=1985 |isbn=9780486249131 |pages=235}}</ref>