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Heads of State
Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)
Era of Diocletian: 219/220 ( year November )
Syria: 814/815 (October)
Events
- After initial willingness to negotiate, the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I send in the Roman- Persian war against the Sassanid king Kavadh I. an army of 52,000 men. However, this is defeated, the responsibility for the defeat of the Flavius Hypatius.
- Possible year of the Battle of Mons Badonicus; see also 500
Born
- Abraham Kaschkar, founder of the revival of the Assyrian monastery movement, († 588 )
Died
- Narsai of Nisibis, Nestorian church teachers ( * after 410)