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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

Era of Diocletian: 213/214 ( year November )

Syria: 808/809 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, receives from the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I in Constantinople Opel recognition of his rule in Italy.

Religion

  • Possible date for the conversion of Clovis to Christianity (baptism for Christmas ), but there are also 498 or 499 into consideration.
  • Sigismund, son of the Burgundian king Gundobad, can be is against the will of the Father, the Arian Christian, baptized by Bishop Avitus of Vienne according to the Catholic rite.

Born

  • Fu Daishi, monk, poet and inventor († 569 )
  • 497: 'Abd al - Muttalib, grandfather and educator of the Prophet Muhammad († 578 )
  • 497: Childebert I, the Merovingian Frankish king († 558 )

Died

  • Athenodorus, East Roman politician
  • Burdunellus, Roman usurper
  • Longinus of Cardala, East Roman officer and rebel
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