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Heads of State

Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Era of Diocletian: 319/320 ( year November )

Syria: 914/915 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Victory Bernicias under Æthelfrith about Dalriada under Aidan.
• June / July: Erich Witt succeeds Liuva II as king of the Visigoths.
• The future Pope Boniface III. is envoy of the Roman Curia in Constantinople Opel.
• July / August: King Agilulf leaves with a Lombard army Mediolanum ( Milan) and besieged with Avar auxiliary troops Cremona, it covers a month later.

Asia

• The period beginning at the instigation of the Chinese rulers of the Sui Dynasty war within the successor states of the first kingdom of Göktürks, which is aimed primarily against the most powerful rulers tardus weakens both the eastern and the western Turks peoples sustainable.
• Under the reign of Empress Suiko of Japan, the Chinese official system is adopted in the form of Kan'i Jun Kai.

Religion

• Legendary founding of the monastery Schuttern by the monk Offo.

Nature and Environment

Born

• MARCH 23: K'inich Janaab ' Pakal I, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque ( † 683 )

• Muawiyah I, Caliph of the Muslims 661-680 and founder of the Umayyad dynasty († 680)
• Xuanzang, a Buddhist pilgrim monk from China ( † 664)

Died

• Liuva II, King of the Visigoths