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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)
Era of Diocletian: 137/138 ( year November )
Syria: 732/733 ( year in October )
Events
- February 8: The Western Roman Emperor Honorius appoints its Magister Militum Constantius III, the husband of his sister Galla Placidia, to Augustus and co-emperor, . However, Constantius died in September.
- March 25: According to legend, the city of Venice is founded.
- Appellation dispute between East and West Rome; the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II provides Illyria under the canonical supremacy of the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. Opposition of Pope Boniface I.
- Bahram V is Persian Great King.
Died
- September 2: Constantius III, co-emperor in the Western Roman Empire.
- Jin Gongdi, last emperor of the Chinese Jin Dynasty