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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