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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: 559/560 ( year November )
Syria: 1154/55 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Frankish Empire
Italy
- Islam in Italy: The Arabs conquer Messina in Sicily. A first attack of Aghlabids to Rome but fails.
British Isles
- Kenneth MacAlpin united with his coronation on the Stone of Scone Scots and Picts for the first time in a nation and founded the house of Alpin. The entire area north of the Forth - Clyde line is ruled by a king. Today Scotland is produced.
Byzantine Empire
- Theodora II ended the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy and orders the destruction of the Paulicians.
Religion
Born
- Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Toltec priest-king