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Heads of State

Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

Era of Diocletian: 267/268 ( year November )

Syria: 862/863 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Narses is imperial commander Justinian in Italy in the fight against the Ostrogoths under Totila. He succeeds in the following year the final destruction of the Ostgotenreiches.
• A truce between Byzantium and the Sassanids will be extended by 5 years; Colchis is excluded from the agreement.
• Athanagild starts a rebellion against Agila I. to the throne of the Visigoth kingdom. He will be assisted by the Eastern Roman troops.
• Albumin Ilkhan, leader of the Göktürks, assumes the Khagan title.

Disasters

• Earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean: After a serious wave of earthquakes in central Greece, there is another in Constantinople Opel, Tyre, Sidon, Berytus, Byblos and Petra, the cause enormous damage. On the Mediterranean coast, this also leads to large tidal waves.

Born

• 551: Babai the Great, Theologian within the Assyrian Church of the East ( † 628)
• 551: Germanus, East Roman successor († 605)