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Heads of State

Year of The Water Horse壬午( at the beginning of the year metal snake辛巳)

Era of Diocletian: 278/279 ( year November )

Syria: 873/874 (October)

Events

Asia

• Petros Patrikios negotiates a ( designed for 50 years) a peace treaty between the Sassanid Empire and Ostrom: Ostrom may then Lazika in Georgia today to keep, but to pay tribute to the Persians.
• The Korean kingdom of Silla subjects the Gaya confederation.

Europe

• Sigebert I, king of the Frankish Empire, suggests at Regensburg back the Avars.
• Is Baian Khan of the Avars.

America

• Calakmul conquered Tikal, one of the most important war events in the history of the Classic Maya.

Died

• By 562: Prokopios of Caesarea, East Roman historian (c. 500)
• By 562: John Lydos, East Roman writers