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===Pre-1600===
* [[330]] &ndash; [[Constantine the Great]] dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of [[Byzantium]], changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Alexander John |last2=Mitchell |first2=Stephen |chapter=Constantinople |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |editor-last1=Spawforth |editor-first1=Antony |editor-last2=Eidinow |editor-first2=Esther |editor-last3=Hornblower |editor-first3=Simon |location=Oxford, U.K. |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2012 |isbn=9780199545568 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ |page=256 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Patricios |first=Nicholas N. |title=The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches |location=London |publisher=Tauris |date=2014 |isbn=9781780762913 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0WGEAAAQBAJ |page=1}}</ref>
*[[868]] &ndash; A copy of the [[Diamond Sūtra]] is published,<ref>{{cite book |last=Soeng |first=Mu |title=Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=2000 |isbn=9780861711604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozU6AwAAQBAJ |page=58}}</ref> the earliest dated and printed book known.<ref>{{cite web |author=British Library |title=Printed copy of the Diamond Sutra |website=BL.uk |date=2023 |accessdate=May 11, 2023 |url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/diamond-sutra |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913094027/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/diamond-sutra |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[973]] &ndash; In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, [[Edgar, King of England|Edgar the Peaceful]] is crowned [[List of English monarchs|King of England]], having ruled since 959 AD.<ref name=bauer>{{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Susan Wise |title=The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade |location=New York |publisher=W.W. Norton |date=2010 |isbn=9780393059755 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u2oP2RihIgC |page=522}}</ref> His wife, [[Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar)|Ælfthryth]], is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hilliam |first=David |title=Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II |location=Stroud, Gloucester, U.K. |publisher=Sutton |date=2004 |isbn=9780750935531 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5wTDQAAQBAJ |page=119}}</ref>
*[[1068]] &ndash; [[Matilda of Flanders]], wife of [[William the Conqueror]], is crowned [[List of English royal consorts|Queen of England]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hilton |first=Lisa |title=Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens |location=New York |publisher=Pegasus Books |date=2021 |isbn=9781639360642 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLtCEAAAQBAJ |page=33 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Huneycutt |first=Lois L. |title=Matilda of Scotland: A Study in Medieval Queenship |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. |publisher=The Boydell Press |date=2003 |isbn=9780851159942 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tufwLByo20C |page=51}}</ref>
*[[1258]] &ndash; [[Louis IX of France]] and [[James I of Aragon]] sign the [[Treaty of Corbeil (1258)|Treaty of Corbeil]], renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the [[House of Barcelona]] from the politics of France.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sanders |first=I.J. |title=The Texts of the Peace of Paris, 1259 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=66 |issue=258 |date=January 1951 |pages=81–97 |doi=10.1093/ehr/lxvi.cclviii.81 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Abulafia |first=David |title=A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca |location=Cambridge, U.K. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2002 |isbn=9780521894050 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4kwR8HCb6akC |page=239 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Castellano |first=Pere Simón |chapter=Catalonia and the Secessionist Debate: How Did We Get Here? |title=States Falling Apart?: Secessionist and Autonomy Movements in Europe |editor-last1=Belser |editor-first1=Eva Maria |editor-last2=Fang-Bär |editor-first2=Alexandra |editor-last3=Massüger |editor-first3=Nina |editor-last4=Pillai |editor-first4=Rekha Oleschak |location=Bern |publisher=Stämpfli Verlag |date=2015 |isbn=9783727259890 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KK1DwAAQBAJ |page=177}}; {{cite book |last=Shidelar |first=John C. |chapter=Catalonia |title=Medieval France: An Encyclopedia |editor-last1=Kibler |editor-first1=William W. |editor-last2=Zinn |editor-first2=Grover A. |editor-last3=Earp |editor-first3=Lawrence M. |editor-last4=Henneman |editor-first4=John Bell Jr. |location=New York |publisher=Garland Publishing |date=1995 |isbn=9780824044442 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQoKeohhNkMC |page=341}}</ref>