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Heads of State
Year of the Water Dragon壬辰( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit辛卯)
Era of Diocletian: 228/229 ( year November )
Syria: 823/824 (October)
Events
Politics and Religion
Eastern Roman Empire
- The Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I performs an increasingly Monophysite religious policy. The Patriarch of Antioch, Flavius II is discontinued, with the support of the theologian Philoxenos of Mabbug and replaced by Severus.
- Areobindus is proclaimed by the people to the anti-emperor, but explains the very next day his loyalty to Anastasios.
Western Europe
- The Franconian province of Rouergue falls to the Visigoths.
- Archbishop Caesarius of Arles inaugurates the nunnery of St. John in Arles, probably the first nunnery in Western Europe.
- King Oeric dies from the family of Oiscingas: 512. His son Ohta becomes King of Kent.
Science and Culture
- History of Arabic script: The oldest known text in Arabic script is written in Syria.
- 512: The Vienna Dioscorides is made for the Byzantine aristocrat Anicia Iuliana.
Disasters
- May 23: The earthquake between Yuanping and Dai in Shanxi Province in China calls according to the Weishu 5310 dead and 2722 injured.
- Mount Vesuvius erupts. The residents affected by King Theodoric receive tax relief.
Nature and Environment
- June 29: In North Africa and Asia Minor a total solar eclipse will take place.
Born
- 512: David of Menevia, Welsh Bishop († 587 )
Died
- 512: Oeric, King of Kent