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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)

Era of Diocletian: 396/397 ( year November )

Syria: 991/992 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

Europe

• The Neustrians defeat at Laon Pippin the Middle and his colleagues Martin, who is killed.
• Theodosius II was Duke of Bavaria.

Religion

• November 7: The Beginning of the Third Council of Constantinople Opel, recognized by the Catholic and the Orthodox Church as the sixth ecumenical council (up to 681 ); it condemns the monotheletische teaching and speaking posthumously the anathema on Pope Honorius I of who has sought a rapprochement with representatives of this doctrine.

Born

• Acha, Jewish scholar († 752 )
• Gensho, Japanese Empress († 748 )
• 680: Grimoald the Younger, Meier House of Neustria († 714)
• To 680. Leo III, Byzantine Emperor († 741 )

Died

• JANUARY 30: Bathilde, wife of Clovis II, nun (c. 630)
• April 18: Muawiyah I, Caliph of the Umayyad dynasty (* 603)

• October 9: Gislenus, priest and anchorite
• October 10: Al -Husayn ibn ' Alī, Imam of the Shiites (* 627 )
• October 10: al - Abbas ibn Ali, the Shiite martyr (* 647 )
• October: Wamba, king of the Visigoths
• November 17: Hilda of Whitby, Holy, abbess and convent founder (* 614)

• 680: Theodosius I, Duke of Bavaria ( * before 630)
• 680: Bhaskara I, Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 600)
• 680 Reineldis, Catholic saint (c. 630)