Editing March 5 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[363]] &ndash; [[Roman emperor]] [[Julian (emperor)|Julian]] leaves [[Antioch]] with an army of 90,000 to [[Julian's Persian War|attack]] the [[Sasanian Empire]], in a campaign which would bring about his own death.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Claudio Mamertino|author2=Jean Chrysostome|author3=Saint Ephraem|title=The Emperor Julian: Panegyric and Polemic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9HN6kAsf7wC&pg=PA54|year=1989|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-376-3|pages=54|archive-date=2022-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207044919/https://books.google.com/books?id=C9HN6kAsf7wC&pg=PA54|url-status=live|access-date=3 September 2020}}</ref>
*[[1046]] &ndash; [[Nasir Khusraw]] begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book ''[[Safarnama]]''.
*[[1279]] &ndash; The [[Livonian Order]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Aizkraukle]] by the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].
*[[1496]] &ndash; King [[Henry VII of England]] issues letters patent to [[John Cabot]] and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.