Editing April 1 (section)

===Pre-1600===
* [[527]] &ndash; [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Justin I]] names his nephew [[Justinian I]] as co-ruler and successor to the throne.<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=J.A.S.|title=The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2005|isbn=9780313325823|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDNv6qZ_I-IC|page=38}}</ref>
*[[1081]] &ndash; [[Alexios I Komnenos]] overthrows the [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Nikephoros III Botaneiates]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Kotzampasi|first=Sofia|title=The Pantokrator Monastery in Constantinople|location=Boston|publisher=Walter de Gruyter and Co|date=2013|isbn=9781614515999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6S_nBQAAQBAJ|page=17|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Neville|first=Leonora Alice|title=Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2019|isbn=9780190939892|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHLADAAAQBAJ|page=2}}</ref> and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting [[Constantinople]], is formally crowned on April 4.<ref>{{cite book|last=Garland|first=Lynda|author-link=Lynda Garland |title=Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204|location=London|publisher=Routledge|date=2011|isbn=9780415619448 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gWGAgAAQBAJ|page=184}}</ref>
*[[1572]] &ndash; In the [[Eighty Years' War]], the ''[[Geuzen|Watergeuzen]]'' [[Capture of Brielle|capture Brielle]] from the [[Seventeen Provinces]], gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Multiple Authors|title=Early Modern Wars 1500–1775|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT97|date=17 September 2013|publisher=Amber Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-78274-121-3|pages=97}}</ref>