Editing October 12 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[539 BC]] &ndash; The army of [[Cyrus the Great]] of [[Persia]] takes [[Babylon]], ending the Babylonian empire. ([[Julian calendar]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Sanford LaSor|author2=David Allan Hubbard|author3=Frederic William Bush|author4=Leslie C. Allen|title=Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wSWpZmmlAoC&pg=PA390|date=3 September 1996|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-3788-2|page=390}}</ref>
* [[633]] &ndash;  [[Battle of Hatfield Chase]]: King [[Edwin of Northumbria]] is defeated and killed by an alliance under [[Penda of Mercia]] and [[Cadwallon ap Cadfan|Cadwallon of Gwynedd]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Bernard Mac Cabe|author2=William Bernard MacCabe|title=A Catholic History of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA258|year=1847|publisher=Newby|pages=258}}</ref>
*[[1279]] &ndash; The ''[[Nichiren Shōshū]]'' branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arweck|author2=Martin D. Stringer|title=Theorizing Faith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kRRZ6sQOdkC&pg=PA61|date=31 May 2002|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-902459-33-2|pages=61}}</ref>
*[[1398]] &ndash; In the [[Treaty of Salynas]], [[Lithuania]] cedes [[Samogitia]] to the [[Teutonic Order|Teutonic Knights]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Albertas Gerutis|title=Lithuania 700 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHlpAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Manyland Books|page=62|isbn=9780000087140}}</ref>
*[[1406]] &ndash; [[Chen Yanxiang]], the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches [[Seoul]] after having set out from [[Java]] four months before.<ref>{{cite book | last = Cho | first = Hung-guk | title = Han'guk-gwa Dongnam Asia-ui Gyoryusa | trans-title  = History of Exchanges between Korea and Southeast Asia | script-title = ko:한국과 동남아시아의 교류사 | publisher = Sonamu | location = Seoul, South Korea | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-89-7139-557-8  | language  = ko  | ref = {{harvid|Cho|2009}}a}}</ref>
*[[1492]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]]'s [[voyages of Christopher Columbus|first expedition]] makes landfall in the [[Caribbean]], specifically on [[San Salvador Island]]. ([[Julian calendar]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Barratt|title=Bahama Saga: The Epic Story of the Bahama Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eX7C6klODvcC&pg=PA84|date=21 May 2004|publisher=Author House|isbn=978-1-4107-9830-5|pages=87}}</ref>