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Heads of State
Year of the Wood Dog甲戌( at the beginning of the year Water Faucet癸酉)
Era of Diocletian: 270/271 ( year November )
Syria: 865/866 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Autumn: The Italian campaign of the Alemanni Dukes Butilin and Leuthari I. against the Byzantine generals Narses fails Capua: Butilin falls at the Battle of Casilinus, Leuthari must retire defeated.
- Restorations imperii: The Pragmatic Sanction so-called Emperor Justinian I ordered the integration of the conquered ( and devastated ) Italy in the Eastern Roman Empire under the administration of a praetorian prefect with simultaneous dissolution of the traditional Western Roman offices.
Asia
- Amr ibn Hind becomes ruler of the North Arabian Lachmidenreichs as the successor of Mundhir III.
Religion
- Cassiodorus founded the monastery in Calabria vivarium.
Born
- Suiko, Japanese Empress († 628)
Died
- Butilin, Alamannic Duke
- Haming, Frankish duke (* 539 )
- Leuthari I., Duke Alamannic
- Mundhir III. , King of Lachmidenreichs
- To 554: Liberius, praetorian prefect and military commander ( * after 465 )