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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Hare丁卯( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger丙寅)

Era of Diocletian: 563/564 ( year November )

Syria: 1158/59 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Italy

Religion

• Rabanus Maurus is Archbishop of Mainz.
• At a Synod of Mainz in the two bishoprics of Bremen and Hamburg to be merged after the destruction of Hamburg by the Danes. Bishop's seat is Bremen.

Died

• Altwin, Bishop of Eichstätt
• Boniface II of Lucca, Margrave of Tuscany