Editing November 17 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[887]] &ndash; Emperor [[Charles the Fat]] is deposed by the Frankish [[magnate]]s in an assembly at [[Frankfurt]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Pollard|first=Justin|title=Alfred the Great: The Man Who Made England|location=London|publisher=John Murray|date=2006|isbn=9780719566660|page=271}}</ref> leading his nephew, [[Arnulf of Carinthia]], to declare himself king of the [[East Francia|East Frankish Kingdom]] in late November.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goldberg|first=Eric Joseph|title=Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817-876|location=Ithaca, N.Y.|publisher=Cornell University Press|date=2009|isbn=9780801475290|page=340|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyiTg0wgl58C}}</ref>
*[[1183]] &ndash; Genpei War: The [[Battle of Mizushima]] takes place off the Japanese coast, where [[Minamoto no Yoshinaka]]'s invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the [[Taira clan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Tony Jaques|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA669|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33538-9|pages=669}}</ref>
*[[1292]] &ndash; [[John Balliol]] becomes King of Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sarah Crome|title=Scotland's First War of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXX9m4JiKskC&pg=PA34|year=1999|publisher=Sarah Crome|isbn=978-0-9536316-0-5|pages=34}}</ref>
*[[1405]] &ndash; [[Sharif ul-Hāshim of Sulu|Sharif ul-Hāshim]] establishes the [[Sultanate of Sulu]].
*[[1494]] &ndash; French King [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]] [[Italian War of 1494–98|occupies Florence]], Italy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Creighton|first=Mandell|title=A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation. Volume III: The Italian Princes, 1464-1518|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|date=1887|oclc=655425|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfdJAAAAMAAJ|page=190|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Weatherford|first=Jack|title=The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace|location=New York|publisher=Three Rivers Press|date=1997|isbn=9780307556745|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8oxCs1eWgsC|page=84|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Bard|title=Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation|location=Grand Rapids, Mich.|publisher=W.B. Eerdmans|date=1996|isbn=9780802836915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C|page=226}}</ref>
*[[1511]] &ndash; [[Henry VIII of England]] concludes the [[War of the League of Cambrai#Holy League|Treaty of Westminster]], a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]].
*[[1558]] &ndash; [[Elizabethan era]] begins: Queen [[Mary I of England]] dies and is succeeded by her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England]].