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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)

Era of Diocletian: 236/237 ( year November )

Syria: 831/832 (October)

Events

  • February 20: Epiphanius is Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.
  • Theodoric the Great leaves his tomb in Ravenna build ( Mausoleum of Theodoric ).
  • Sana'a is the capital of the Himyarites.
  • 520: Foundation of the Kingdom of East Anglia.

Born

  • Justin II, Byzantine Emperor († 578 )
  • To 515/520: Arnegunde, Frankish nobleman, wife of King Clotaire I. ( † about 565/570 )
  • 520: Frediano of Lucca, an Italian bishop and saint († 588 )
  • 520 Charibert I., Frankish king († 567 )
  • 520: Chlodoald, Merovingian prince, Holy († 560)
  • 520: Ingo Berga, Frankish queen ( † 589 )
  • 520: Machutus, Bishop of Aleth ( † about 620)
  • 520: Radegund, Thuringian princess, patron saint of weavers and potters († 587 )

Died

  • 000Juli: Vitalian, East Roman politician
  • 520: Isidore, Neoplatonic philosopher
April 2014 List of centuries 8th century 480s 490s 500s (decade) 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 525 Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Coptic calendar Justin II. Aregund Fridianus Clodoald Malo (saint) John of Cappadocia Vitalian (general) Isidore of Alexandria
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