Editing January 4 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[46 BC]] &ndash; [[Julius Caesar]] fights [[Titus Labienus]] in the [[Battle of Ruspina]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh|title=A History of Rome to the Battle of Actium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-DQAAAAMAAJ|year=1902|publisher=Macmillan}}</ref>
* [[871]] &ndash; [[Battle of Reading (871)|Battle of Reading]]: [[Æthelred of Wessex]] and his brother [[Alfred the Great|Alfred]] are defeated by a Danish invasion army.<ref name="auto">{{cite book|author=Mark Grossman|title=World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSJoaugn2h8C&pg=PA13|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-7477-8|pages=13}}</ref>