Editing March 2 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[537]] &ndash; [[Siege of Rome (537–38)|Siege of Rome]]: The [[Ostrogoths|Ostrogoth]] army under king [[Vitiges]] begins the [[siege]] of the capital. [[Belisarius]] conducts a delaying action outside the [[Piazza del Popolo|Flaminian Gate]]; he and a detachment of his ''[[bucellarii]]'' are almost cut off.<ref>{{cite book|last=Petersen|first=Leif Inge Ree|title=Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States, 400-800 AD: Byzantium, the West and Islam|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|date=2013|isbn=9789004251991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRGaAAAAQBAJ|pages=503–505|access-date=2021-03-02|archive-date=2021-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103130442/https://books.google.com/books?id=BRGaAAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[986]] &ndash; [[Louis V of France|Louis V]] becomes the last [[Carolingian dynasty|Carolingian]] king of [[West Francia]] after the death of his father, [[Lothair of France|Lothaire]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Riché|first=Pierre|title=The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe|translator-last=Allen|translator-first=Michael Idomir|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=1993|isbn=9780812230628|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tcjy7bCmFL0C|page=278|access-date=2021-03-02|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421001031/https://books.google.com/books?id=Tcjy7bCmFL0C|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1331]] &ndash; Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a [[Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331)|siege]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Norwich, J.J.|author-link=John Julius Norwich|title=Byzantium: The Decline and Fall|publisher=Viking|location=London|year=1995|page=286|isbn=978-0-670-82377-2}}</ref>
*[[1444]] &ndash; [[Skanderbeg]] organizes a group of [[Albanians|Albanian]] nobles to form the [[League of Lezhë]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Frasheri|first=Kristo|title=The History of Albania: A Brief Survey|location=New York|publisher=Tirana|date=1964|oclc=1097794196|page=70}}</ref>
*[[1458]] &ndash; [[George of Poděbrady]] is chosen as the king of [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bretholz|first=Berthold|chapter=Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia Previous to Their Union with Austria in the Year 1562|title=The World's History: A Survey of Man's Record. Volume 5: South-Eastern and Eastern Europe|editor-last=Helmolt|editor-first=Hans F.|location=London|publisher=William Heinemann|date=1907|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LY4AQAAMAAJ|page=263}}</ref>
*[[1476]] &ndash; [[Burgundian Wars]]: The [[Old Swiss Confederacy]] hands [[Charles the Bold]], Duke of [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]], a major defeat in the [[Battle of Grandson]] in [[Canton of Neuchâtel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Vaughan|first=Richard|title=Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.|publisher=The Boydell Press|date=2004|isbn=9780851159188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsKuCHXRuPMC&q=Grandson|pages=365–378}}</ref>
*[[1484]] &ndash; The [[College of Arms]] is formally incorporated by [[Royal Charter]] signed by King [[Richard III of England]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopedia of Armory|location=London|publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack|date=1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rfhYAAAAYAAJ|page=22}}</ref>
*[[1498]] &ndash; [[Vasco da Gama]]'s fleet visits the [[Island of Mozambique]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Frederick|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Historical Companion|editor-last=Paxton|editor-first=John|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press|date=1988|isbn=9780312000479|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu-uCwAAQBAJ|page=182|access-date=2021-03-03|archive-date=2022-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203234157/https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu-uCwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>