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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Era of Diocletian: 226/227 ( year November )

Syria: 821/822 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, Boëthius appointed consul.
  • Wacho murdered his uncle Tato and makes himself king of the Lombards. A little later he sends troops across the Danube and conquered Pannonia to Drava.
  • Between the Gauts and the Svea in Sweden today there is a war.

Asia

  • Bhanugupta, ruler of the northern Indian Gupta Empire loses a battle against the Hephtaliten under Toramana and must flee to Bengal; the Hephtaliten win Kashmir and Punjab, the Gupta Empire begins to fall apart.

Science and Technology

  • At 510: The Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata developed its own number system, the so-called Aryabhata code. Numbers are referred to therein by syllables.

Born

  • To 510: Deiniol, Bishop in Wales ( † about 584 )
  • To 510 Gildas, Celtic Monk († 570 )

Died

  • Tato, Lombard Duke
  • To 510: Hashim ibn ʿ Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad
  • 510 or 517: Eugendus, Abbot of Condat in France, saint of the Catholic Church (c. 450)
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