Editing September 9 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 337|337]] &ndash; [[Constantine II (emperor)|Constantine II]], [[Constantius II]], and [[Constans]] succeed their father [[Constantine the Great|Constantine I]] as co-emperors. The [[Roman Empire]] is divided between the three [[Augustus (honorific)|Augusti]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Potter |first=D. S. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780288988 |title=Constantine the Emperor |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-975586-8 |location=Oxford |pages=308 |oclc=780288988}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Elton |first=Hugh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1046072514 |title=The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-521-89931-4 |location=Cambridge |pages=69–70 |oclc=1046072514}}</ref>
*[[AD 1000|1000]] &ndash; [[Battle of Svolder]], [[Viking Age]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andersson |first=Theodore M. |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501717901/html |title=The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-5017-1790-1 |chapter=Notes to the Text |doi=10.7591/9781501717901}}</ref>
*[[1141]] &ndash; [[Yelü Dashi]], the [[Liao dynasty]] general who founded the [[Qara Khitai]], defeats the [[Seljuk Empire|Seljuq]] and [[Kara-Khanid Khanate|Kara-Khanid]] forces at the [[Battle of Qatwan]].
*[[1320]] &ndash; In the [[Battle of Saint George]], the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] under [[Andronikos Asen]] ambush and defeat the forces of the [[Principality of Achaea]], securing possession of [[Barony of Arcadia|Arcadia]].
*[[1488]] &ndash; [[Anne of Brittany|Anne]] becomes sovereign [[List of rulers of Brittany|Duchess of Brittany]], becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the [[union of Brittany and France]].
*[[1493]] &ndash; [[Battle of Krbava Field]], a decisive defeat of [[Croats]] in [[Croatia in the union with Hungary|Croatian]] struggle against the invasion by the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*  1493   &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]], with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1989|page=18|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref>
*[[1499]] &ndash; The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the explorer [[Vasco de Gama]], completing his two-year journey around the [[Cape of Good Hope]] to India.<ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=19|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref>
*[[1513]] &ndash; [[James IV of Scotland]] is defeated and dies in the [[Battle of Flodden]], ending Scotland's involvement in the [[War of the League of Cambrai]].
*[[1543]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots|Mary Stuart]], at nine months old, is [[coronation|crowned]] "[[Queen of Scots]]" in the central Scottish town of [[Stirling]].
*[[1561]] &ndash; The ultimately unsuccessful [[Colloquy of Poissy]] opens in an effort to reconcile [[Roman Catholicism in France|French Catholics]] and [[Huguenot|Protestants]].
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cavendish]] in his ship [[Desire (ship)|''Desire'']] enters [[Plymouth]] and completes the first deliberately planned [[Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation|voyage of circumnavigation]].<ref name=TTH>{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}</ref>