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===Pre-1600===
* [[598]] &ndash; [[Maurice's Balkan campaigns#Renewed campaigns (597–602)|Avar–Byzantine wars]]: The [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] lift the [[siege]] at the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] stronghold of [[Constanța|Tomis]]. Their leader [[Bayan I]] retreats north of the [[Danube|Danube River]] after the [[Avar Khaganate|Avaro]]-[[Slavs|Slavic]] army is decimated by the [[Plague (disease)|plague]].
*[[1282]] &ndash; The people of [[Sicily]] rebel against the [[Capetian House of Anjou|Angevin]] [[monarch|king]] [[Charles I of Naples|Charles I]], in what becomes known as the [[Sicilian Vespers]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A history of italian republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zujq7v0ILiwC&pg=PA103|year=1832|publisher=Longman|pages=103}}</ref>
*[[1296]] &ndash; [[Edward I of England|Edward I]] [[Capture of Berwick (1296)|sacks]] [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], during armed conflict between [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Herbert Maxwell|title=A History of the House of Douglas from the Earliest Times Down to the Legislative Union of England and Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9ztAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-1-145-80495-1|pages=25}}</ref>