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Heads of State

Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Syria: 434/435 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Quintus Articuleius Paetinus and Lucius Venuleius Apronianus are Roman Consuls.

Science and Culture

• Zhang Heng, Minister and chief astronomer of the Han Dynasty, the Chinese reformed calendar to allow match the seasons again with the months.

Disasters

• The city of Cyzicus (Greece ) is ravaged by an earthquake and razed to the ground.

Born

• By 123: Apuleius, ancient writer, speaker and philosopher († 170 )