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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Era of Diocletian: 242/243 ( year November )

Syria: 837/838 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Religion

Disasters

  • May 20: An earthquake at Antioch in Syria allegedly kills 300,000 people.
  • 29 May and May 30: The Illyrian city Lychnidos next to the lake is completely destroyed by an earthquake, many people come.

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Died

  • 525 or 526: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Memmius, Roman statesman and philosopher
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