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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)
Era of Diocletian: 233/234 ( year November )
Syria: 828/829 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Sigismund, King of the Burgundians seeks to approach Ostrom and thus aroused the wrath of his father Theodoric the Great; his son Sigerich turns against him, Sigismund can strangle him later.
- As Yusuf ʾ ʾ ar ar Yath is king of the Himyarites in Yemen.
- To 517: Sigismund of Burgundy married his daughter with the Frankish king Theodoric I.
Religion
- Thimo Theos IV is Patriarch of Alexandria.
Died
- 510 or 517: Eugendus, Abbot of Condat in France, saint of the Catholic Church (c. 450)