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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Monkey戊申( at the beginning of the year fire - sheep丁未)

Syria: 599/600 ( year in October )

Events

• Emperor Diocletian begins a campaign against the Germans in the province of Raetia.
• Co-emperor Maximian begins in Gallia Belgica with the construction of a new fleet, after the commander of the UK fleet, Carausius, of Rome renounced and had risen to the Emperor of Britain.

Born

• By 288: Ammon, Christian monk from Egypt ( † before 356)

Died

• By 288: St. Sebastian, a Roman soldier and Christian martyr