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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Pig乙亥( at the beginning of the year Wood Dog甲戌)

Era of Diocletian: 211/212 ( year November )

Syria: 806/807 ( year in October )

Events

  • The future King Cerdic of Wessex lands in Hampshire and settles there.
  • Foundation of Shaolin monastic order in the Chinese province of Henan.

Born

  • Chlodomer, Frankish king († 524)
  • By 495: Antonina, wife of the Byzantine general Belisarius ( † after 565 )
  • By 495: Chlothar I, King of Franconia († 561 )
  • By 495: Goar, Aquitanian priests († 575 )

Died

  • By 495: Barsauma of Nisibis, Nestorian bishop and theologian
  • Year ( 5th century)
  • 495

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