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Heads of State

Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Era of Diocletian: 259/260 ( year November )

Syria: 854/855 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Second Gothic war Naples the Ostrogothic troops arises under Totila.
• Futile attempt Eastern Roman troops, Nisibis to conquer the Sassanids.

• (um): In the Persian Sassanid Empire Anōšazād rebelled against his father, the Sassanian Khosrow I.

• (um): The Christian ( Monophysite ) Kingdom Makuria in Sudan is justified. It exists until 1314.

Disasters

• The " Justinian plague " spreads over Marseilles until the Rhineland.