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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)
Syria: 567/568 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Roman Empire
- Gallienus ' son Valerian is collected at the Caesar.
- Karpen and Goths invade across the Danube into the province of Macedonia to Thessalonica before and plunder the coasts of Asia Minor.
- Many Franks and Alemanni penetrate in the northwest of the Roman Empire across the border and plunder the cities.
- The Roman frontier town of Dura Europos on the Euphrates was conquered by the Sassanids.
Imperial China
- Period of the Three Kingdoms: Wei forces under Deng Ai add the Shu army under Jiang Wei a crushing defeat that ended the border skirmishes between the two sub- kingdoms.