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Heads of State
Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)
Era of Diocletian: 485/486 ( year November )
Syria: 1080/81 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Charlemagne marries a daughter of the king of the Lombards, Desiderius.
- Aachen is charged by Charlemagne to the Palatinate.
- Charlemagne is taking a campaign against Aquitaine, where it holds Hunold, caught the father of the insurgent Waifar.
- Eudo II becomes duke of Aquitaine.
Ersturkundliche mentions
- First mention of Bergheim, Binau, Ditzingen, Dolgesheim, Ensheim, Gau- Bishop Home, Gemmingen, Germering, Hockenheim, Lohra Menzingen, Odenheim, Reilsheim, Remchingen, Ubstadt, Weilheim an der Teck and Zeutern in the Lorsch codex, as well as Aufhausen, Jesingen, Langenlonsheim, sub Baldingen and Vermes.
Religion
- Pope Stephen III. convene a Lateran synod. This determines that it is not necessary for the election of a pope, the consent of the Roman population. In addition, the Byzantine iconoclasm is condemned and antipope Constantine II finally declared deposed.
- Lully founded in Haerulfisfelt (now Bad Hersfeld ) a Benedictine monastery on the site of the 736 built by Sturmius hermitage. The Abbey Hersfeld is to 1606. Stiftsruine The Bad Hersfeld is today the largest Romanesque church ruin in the world.
- Berowelf is the third bishop of Würzburg.
- Tassilo III. of Bavaria, led the founding of the monastery of San Candido South Tyrol by Atto of Scharnitz which is first abbot there.