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Heads of State

Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Era of Diocletian: 134/135 ( year November )

Syria: 729/730 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• December 27: A part of the Roman clergy chooses after the death of Zosimus Eulalius as Bishop of Rome. However, this is now regarded as anti-pope.
• December 29: Saint Boniface I. was proclaimed in Rome as the new pope. He is supported by Emperor Honorius against the anti-bishop Eulalius.
• Wallia beats in Roman service Siling the Vandals and Alans, which are displaced from the north- east of the Iberian Peninsula to the south and west.
• In a Föderatenvertrag Honorius assigns the residences Visigoths in southern Gaul. This results in Aquitaine the Visigothic kingdom ( kingdom Tolosanisches to Tolosa, now Toulouse).
• Theodoric I. becomes King of the Visigoths.
• Ostrom's victory against the Arab tribe of the border Lakhmids under Mundhir I.
• The Jews of Minorca be forcibly converted to Christianity.

Imperial China

• Jin Gongdi becomes emperor of China, succeeding his brother Jin Andi.

Nature and Environment

Born

• Justa Grata Honoria, daughter of Constantius III. († 455 )

• 418: Yūryaku, Japanese Emperor († 479)

Died

• December 26: Zosimus, Pope

• Wallia, King of the Visigoths

• 418: Orosius, historian and theologian (c. 385)