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===Pre-1600=== *[[1066]] – Following the death of [[Edward the Confessor]] on the previous day, the [[Witan]] meets to confirm [[Harold Godwinson]] as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the [[Norman conquest of England]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Edward Augustus|last=Freeman|author-link=Edward Augustus Freeman|title=The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yc7ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7|year=1873|publisher=Clarendon Press for Macmillan and Company, New York|pages=12}}</ref> *[[1205]] – [[Philip of Swabia]] undergoes a second coronation as [[King of the Romans]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Christopher|last1=Fletcher|first2=Sean|last2=Brady|first3=Rachel E.|last3=Moss|first4=Lucy|last4=Riall|author-link4=Lucy Riall|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh5KDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147|date=2 February 2018|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-58538-7|pages=147}}</ref> *[[1322]] – [[Stefan Dečanski|Stephen Uroš III]] is crowned [[Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|King of Serbia]], having defeated his half-brother [[Stefan Konstantin]] in battle. His son is crowned "young king" in the same ceremony.<ref>{{cite book|first=John Van Antwerp|last=Fine|author-link=John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.|title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&pg=PA263|year=1994|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-08260-4|pages=263}}</ref> *[[1355]] – [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV of Bohemia]] is crowned with the [[Iron Crown of Lombardy]] as [[King of Italy]] in [[Milan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Archibald|last=Bower|author-link=Archibald Bower|title=The History Of The Popes: From The Foundation of the See of Rome, To The Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA487|year=1766|publisher=Author|pages=487}}</ref> *[[1449]] – [[Constantine XI Palaiologos|Constantine XI]] is crowned [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine Emperor]] at [[Mystras]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WJTAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=19 September 2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-25815-0|pages=218}}</ref> *[[1492]] – The Catholic Monarchs [[Ferdinand and Isabella]] enter Granada at the conclusion of the [[Granada War]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Bernard Bolingbroke|last1=Woodward|author-link1=Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward|first2=William Leist Readwin |last2=Cates|author-link2=William Leist Readwin Cates|title=Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA513|year=1872|publisher=Lee and Shepard|pages=513}}</ref> *[[1536]] – The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, [[Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco]], is founded by Viceroy [[Antonio de Mendoza]] and Bishop [[Juan de Zumárraga]] in Mexico City.<ref>{{cite web|website=Cronica.com.mx|title=A 480 años del Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2016/972793.html|first=Carlos|last=Villa Roiz|access-date=July 17, 2019|date=July 16, 2016|language=es|trans-title=480 years of Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718024741/http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2016/972793.html|archive-date=July 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1540]] – King [[Henry VIII of England]] marries [[Anne of Cleves]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Retha Warnicke|first=Retha Marvine|last=Warnicke|title=The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Early Modern England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1PrjR79wzgC&pg=PA1|date=13 April 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77037-8|pages=1}}</ref> *[[1579]] – The [[Union of Arras]] unites the southern Netherlands under the [[Duke of Parma]] ([[Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma|Ottavio Farnese]]), governor in the name of [[Philip II of Spain|King Philip II of Spain]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Tabitta|last=Van Nouhuys|title=The Ages of Two-faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xO3n6sjUaK4C&pg=PA477|year=1998|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-11204-9|pages=477}}</ref>
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