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Heads of State
Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)
Era of Diocletian: 206/207 ( year November )
Syria: 801/802 ( year in October )
Events
Europe
Asia
- Toramana becomes ruler of Hephtaliten who experience under him its peak.
Born
- 490: John the Cappadocian, East Roman praetorian prefect ( † after 548)
- 490: John Malalas, East Roman historian († 570 )
- 490: John Philoponus, early Christian philosopher († 570 )
- 490: Narses, East Roman commander († 574 )
Died
- Petros III. Mongo, Patriarch of Alexandria and the first Coptic Pope
- 490: Zhang Qiujian, Chinese mathematician (c. 430)
- 490: Vigilius of Thapsus, Bishop of Thapsus