Editing October 24 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69]] &ndash; In the [[Second Battle of Bedriacum]], troops loyal to [[Vespasian]] defeat those of Emperor [[Vitellius]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Publius Cornelius Tacitus|title=Agricola and Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENwFjRIyq_UC&pg=PA67|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press, UK|isbn=978-0-19-283300-6|page=67|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=8 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708071109/https://books.google.com/books?id=ENwFjRIyq_UC&pg=PA67|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1260]] &ndash; [[Chartres Cathedral]] is dedicated in the presence of King [[Louis IX of France]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marcel Aubert|author2=J. Adolf Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth|author3=Hans Hellmut Hofstätter|title=High Gothic Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8AMAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Methuen|page=68|isbn=9789070053376|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819204827/https://books.google.com/books?id=R8AMAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1260   &ndash; After defeating the [[Ilkhanate|Mongols]] at the [[Battle of Ain Jalut]] and assassinating the previous Mamluk sultan, [[Qutuz]], [[Baybars]] ascends to the Egyptian throne as the fourth sultan of the [[Mamluk Sultanate]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Petry |first=Carl F. |title=The Mamluk Sultanate: A History |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2022 |isbn=9781108557382 |page=10 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1360]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Brétigny]] is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.<ref>{{cite book|author=John F. Le Patourel|title=Feudal Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu3eBAAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|year=1984|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-3810-2|pages=3|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=19 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819145806/https://books.google.com/books?id=mu3eBAAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1590]] &ndash; [[John White (colonist and artist)|John White]], the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
*[[1596]] &ndash; The [[2nd Spanish Armada|second Spanish armada]] sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off [[Cape Finisterre]] forcing a retreat to port.<ref name="Tenace">{{cite journal|last=Tenace|first=Edward|title=A Strategy of Reaction: The Armadas of 1596 and 1597 and the Spanish Struggle for European Hegemony|journal=English Historical Review|date=2003|volume=118|series=Oxford Journals|issue=478|pages=867–68|doi=10.1093/ehr/118.478.855}}</ref>