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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Era of Diocletian: 225/ 226 ( year November )

Syria: 820/821 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Clovis I conquered the Rhine Frankish kingdom and united with it again for decades separate the largest single groups of the Franks.
• To 509: Clovis can to secure his autocracy murder the incumbent small Franconian kings; thus ending the division between the Rhine and Franconia Salfranken. The Frankish Empire is a unified monarchy, the royal crown hereditary in the Merovingian dynasty, ie. Among Clovis' sons

Religion

• The Irish monk Fridolin of Säckingen built in the Mosel area a number of churches, including Saint- Avold.

Born

• Kimmei, Japanese Emperor († 571 )

Died

• Chloderich ( " parasite " ), Frankish petty king

• To 509: Sigebert of Cologne ( " the Lame " ), Frankish petty king