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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)
Diocletian era 73 /74 ( year November )
Syria: 668/669 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Roman Empire
- Alamanni defeat the Roman army master Barbatio in Augst. Under Chnodomar and Agenarich ( Serapio ) they pull against the Romans in the Battle of Argentoratum ( Strasbourg). They are defeated by Caesar Julian.
- The largest known obelisk erected by Emperor Constantius II in the Circus Maximus.
Imperial China
- Sixteen Kingdoms: Funan is a tributary vassal state of the Chinese empire.
Religion
- March 3: relics of the Apostle Andrew and Luke are brought to Constantinople Opel.
- Constantius II raises the banishment of Liberius Bishop of Rome and his opponent Felix II leaves Rome.
Died
- Gundomad, Alamannic Gaukönig
- 357 or 358: Ossius of Cordoba, Bishop of Córdoba, opponents of Arianism (* 257)