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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

Era of Diocletian: 273/274 ( year November )

Syria: 868/869 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• In the war of the Frankish king Chlothar I. against the Saxons this offending to fort Deutz, which is looted from them.
• The plague breaks out again in Europe.

Asia

• The Turks unite under the Part ruler Istemi with the Persian Sassanids and destroy together the state of the Hephthalites.
• In China, the Northern Zhou Dynasty replaced the Western Wei Dynasty.

Religion

• The Abbey of Saint -Germain -des- Prés in Paris, and the Abbey of Saint -Médard in Soissons be established.

Died

• Kyriakos, Palestinian Anchorite (* 449 )