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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Buffalo乙丑( at the beginning of the year wood rat甲子)

Era of Diocletian: 501/502 ( year November )

Syria: 1096/97 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • December 25: Baptism of Widukind in the Carolingian royal palace Attigny after having previously surrendered to the Franks.
  • The Spanish city of Girona, which is ruled by the Moors, is occupied by troops of the Franks.
  • The Kingdom of Kent, ruled by the independent king Heahberht, comes under the direct management of Mercia under King Offa.
  • First mention of Nagold and Schleißheim.

Asia

  • Abu Musa Muhammad ibn al -Mahdi, known as al - Hādī, after the death of Al- Mahdi, the fourth Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty; he ruled only one year.

Religion

Died

  • 05 October: Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese poet (* 718)
  • Al -Mahdi, the third Abbasid Caliph (* 742)
  • Theophilus of Edessa, Christian- Syrian scholar
  • Ealhmund, King of Kent
April 2014 List of centuries 6th century 10th century 740s 750s 760s 770s 780s 790s 800s (decade) 810s 820s 775 795 Francia Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Carolingian dynasty Heaberht of Kent Al-Mahdi June 11 Arno of Salzburg Ludger Frisians Verden (state) October 5 Ealhmund of Kent
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