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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

Era of Diocletian: 237/238 ( year November )

Syria: 832/833 (October)

Events

• Justinian I, later the Byzantine emperor, is consul.

• 521 or 525: Samson is Bishop Breton- Dol.

Born

• Or 522: Columba of Iona († 597)

Died

• November: Jakob von Sarug, Syrian Christian writer (* 451)