Editing May 7 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[351]] &ndash; The [[Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus]] breaks out after his arrival at [[Antioch]].<ref>Socrates Scholasticus, ''Historia ecclesiastica'' ii.28.2</ref>
* [[558]] &ndash; In [[Constantinople]], the [[dome]] of the [[Hagia Sophia]] collapses, twenty years after its construction.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nadine Schibille|title=Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-oGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=22 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-12415-3|pages=50}}</ref> [[Justinian I]] immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
*[[1274]] &ndash; In France, the [[Second Council of Lyon]] opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the [[Pope]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wshYVi3KM4C&pg=RA3-PA77|publisher=Ordo Fratrum Minorum|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[1342]] &ndash; In [[Avignon]], France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is [[1342 papal conclave|elected]] [[Pope]] and takes the name [[Pope Clement VI|Clement VI]].<ref>{{cite web |author-link=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=Conclave of May 5 - 7, 1342 (Clement VI) |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/conclave-xiv.htm#1342 |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=[[Florida International University]] |oclc=53276621 }}</ref>
*[[1487]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Málaga (1487)|Siege of Málaga]] commences during the Spanish [[Reconquista]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Harry W. Hazard|author2=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA452|year=1975|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-06670-3|pages=452}}</ref>
*[[1544]] &ndash; The [[Burning of Edinburgh]] by an English army is the first action of the [[Rough Wooing]].<ref>Joseph Bain, ''Hamilton Papers'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 369.</ref>