Editing May 8 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[453 BC]] &ndash; [[Spring and Autumn period]]: The house of [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]] defeats the house of Zhi, ending the [[Battle of Jinyang]], a military conflict between the elite families of the [[Jin (Chinese state)|State of Jin]].
* [[413]] &ndash; Emperor [[Honorius (emperor)|Honorius]] signs an [[edict]] providing tax relief for the Italian provinces [[Province of Viterbo|Tuscia]], [[Campania]], [[Picenum]], [[Samnium]], [[Apulia]], [[Lucania]] and [[Calabria]], which were plundered by the [[Visigoths]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pharr|first1=Clyde|last2=Davidson|first2=Theresa Sherrer|last3=Pharr|first3=Mary Brown|last4=Williams|first4=Dickerman|title=The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions|location=Union, N.J.|publisher=Lawbook Exchange|date=2006|isbn=9781584771463|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ROBb7SIvYgC|page=319}}</ref>
* [[589]] &ndash; [[Reccared I]] opens the [[Third Council of Toledo]], marking the entry of [[Visigoth|Visigothic Spain]] into the [[Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenwein|first=Barbara H.|title=Reading the Middle Ages: Sources From Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=2018|isbn=9781442636736|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JNbAgAAQBAJ|page=49|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Vogel|first=Albrecht|chapter=Toledo, Councils of|title=A Religious Encyclopædia, or, Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal and Practical Theology. Volume III|editor-last1=Schaff|editor-first1=Philip|editor-last2=Jackson|editor-first2=Samuel Macauley|editor-last3=Schaff|editor-first3=David S.|location=Edinburgh|publisher=T. & T. Clark|date=1882|oclc=28786745|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qPZMAQAAMAAJ|page=2367}}</ref>
*[[1360]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Brétigny]] drafted between King [[Edward III of England]] and King [[John II of France]] (the Good).<ref name=p118>p118 Hersch Lauterpacht, "Volume 20 of International Law Reports, Cambridge University Press, 1957, {{ISBN|0-521-46365-3}}</ref>
*[[1373]] &ndash; [[Julian of Norwich]], a Christian [[Christian mysticism|mystic]] and [[anchoress]], experiences the deathbed visions described in her ''[[Revelations of Divine Love]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-05-05 |title=Revelations of Divine Love review – Julian of Norwich's heavenly visions |language=en |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/05/revelations-of-divine-love-julian-of-norwich-review-religious-visions |access-date=2021-09-06}}</ref>
*[[1429]] &ndash; [[Joan of Arc]] lifts the [[Siege of Orléans]], turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
*[[1450]] &ndash; Kentishmen [[Jack Cade's Rebellion|revolt]] against King [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]].
*[[1516]] &ndash; A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, [[Trần Cảo Rebellion|murdered]] Emperor [[Lê Tương Dực]] and fled, leaving the capital [[Hanoi|Thăng Long]] undefended.
*[[1541]] &ndash; [[Hernando de Soto]] stops near present-day [[Walls, Mississippi]], and sees the Mississippi River<ref>{{cite book|last=Dye|first=David H.|chapter=Reconstruction of the de Soto Route in Arkansas: The Mississippi Alluvial Plain|title=The Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Proceedings of the de Soto Symposia, 1988 and 1990|editor-last1=Young|editor-first1=Gloria A.|editor-last2=Hoffman|editor-first2=Michael P.|location=Fayetteville, Ark.|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|date=1993|isbn=9781557282705|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIt0uRRwPPMC|page=40}}</ref> (then known by the Spanish as ''Río de Espíritu Santo'', the name given to it by [[Alonso Álvarez de Pineda]] in 1519).<ref>{{cite book|last=Weber|first=David John|title=The Spanish Frontier in North America|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2009|isbn=9780300140682|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MUCmD15yEAYC|page=29}}</ref>