Editing August 8 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[685 BC]] &ndash; [[Spring and Autumn period]]: [[Battle of Qianshi]]: Upon the death of the previous Duke of [[Qi (state)|Qi]], [[Wuzhi (Qi)|Gongsun Wuzhi]], Duke Zhuang of [[Lu (state)|Lu]] sends an army into the [[Qi (state)|Duchy of Qi]] to install the exiled [[Qi (state)|Qi]] prince Gongzi Jiu as the new Duke of Qi – but is defeated at Qianshi by Jiu's brother and rival claimant, the newly inaugurated [[Duke Huan of Qi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zuo |first1=Qiuming |last2=Durrant |first2=Stephen |last3=Li |first3=Wai-yee |last4=Schaberg |first4=David |title=Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the 'Spring and Autumn Annals' |date=2016 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |isbn=9780295999159 |pages=156–157 |edition=1}}</ref>
* [[870]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Meerssen]]: King [[Louis the German]] and his half-brother [[Charles the Bald]] partition the [[Middle Francia|Middle Frankish Kingdom]] into two larger east and west divisions.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Philip Grierson|author2=Mark A. S. Blackburn|title=Medieval European Coinage: With a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The early Middle Ages, 5th-10th centuries. 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpQiZ8BX2q8C&pg=PA229|year=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-03177-6|pages=229}}</ref>
*[[1220]] &ndash; Sweden is defeated by [[Estonians|Estonian]] tribes in the [[Battle of Lihula]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mati Laur|title=History of Estonia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPMgAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Avita|isbn=978-9985-2-0324-8|page=47}}</ref>
*[[1264]] &ndash; [[Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66|Mudéjar revolt]]: Muslim rebel forces took the [[Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera]] after defeating the [[Crown of Castile|Castilian]] garrison.
*[[1503]] &ndash; King [[James IV of Scotland]] marries [[Margaret Tudor]], daughter of King [[Henry VII of England]] at [[Holyrood Abbey]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland.
*[[1509]] &ndash; [[Krishnadeva Raya]] is crowned Emperor of [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagara]] at [[Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh|Chittoor]].
*[[1576]] &ndash; The cornerstone for [[Tycho Brahe]]'s [[Uraniborg]] observatory is laid on the island of [[Hven]].
*[[1585]] &ndash; [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]] enters [[Cumberland Sound]] in search of the [[Northwest Passage]].
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: [[Spanish Armada#Battle of Gravelines|Battle of Gravelines]]: The naval engagement ends, ending the [[Spanish Armada]]'s attempt to invade [[England]].