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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Era of Diocletian: 112/113 ( year November )

Syria: 707/708 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Roman Empire

• Sack of Corinth, Argos and Sparta by the Visigoths under Alaric I Stilicho gets in the northern Peloponnese in Pholoe contrary, but the Visigoths to settle with the loot to Epirus.
• Settlement of Marcomanni under the Christian Queen Fritigil in Pannonia at the direction of Stilicho.

Imperial China

• Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Andi becomes emperor of China.

Culture and Religion

• Augustine of Hippo is Bishop of Hippo Regius in Africa.
• The Temple of Demeter at Eleusis is destroyed by Christians.

Born

• Petronius Maximus, briefly Roman Emperor († 455 )

Died

• Isaac of Dalmatia, monk and saint

• By 396 Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop, Saint and Doctor of the Church (c. 337 )