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| 1066 |
| | | Harold, hurrying south to confront the Normans after his victory at Stamford Bridge, is defeated and killed at Hastings | |
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| 1263 |
| | | Pope Urban IV offers Sicily to a French prince, Charles of Anjou, who marches south in 1266 to fight for the kingdom | |
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| 1377 |
| | | Jogaila inherits a pagan Lithuanian kingdom which has been extended as far south as Kiev | |
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| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| 1494 |
| | | In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil | |
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| 1501 |
| | | Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci sets sail from Lisbon to explore to the south of the New World | |
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| 1660 |
| | | General George Monck marches south from Scotland to London, to intervene in England's unresolved political crisis | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart gathers support for the Forty-Five Rebellion on his way south from the Hebrides and reaches Edinburgh | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart marches as far south as Derby, but then turns back | |
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