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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rat戊子( at the beginning of the year fire - pig丁亥)

Era of Diocletian: 224/225 ( year November )

Syria: 819/820 (October)

Events

• Paris is the place of Soissons, the capital of the Kingdom of the Franks under Clovis I
• Clovis I receives from his allies, the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I the title of Patricius awarded.

• The king of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great picks late in the conflict in South Gaul after the Battle of Vouillé one. Clovis the Burgundians had been able to win with the promise of Arles and Narbonne as allies. Aquitaine is the Goths lost, but succeeds after all, to get Septimania with Narbonne the Visigothic kingdom, so that the franc will not have access to the Mediterranean, while Theodoric the Provence region east of the Rhone Arles, including Arles and Avignon slams his Ostrogothic kingdom.

• 508: The Lombards destroy the Herulerreich under Rudolf and rise to the strongest power on the middle Danube on.