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Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Era of Diocletian: 279/280 ( year November )

Syria: 874/875 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • 563: The Empire of Hephtaliten is destroyed by a joint attack of Göktürks and Sassanids.

Religion

  • The Irish monk Columbanus moves after he has fallen out with St. Finian, with 12 companions to Scotland, where he founded a monastery on the Hebridean island of Iona, which is for the later history of Scotland is of major importance.
  • A synod in Braga Swebenreich repeated the condemnation of Priscillianists.
  • Re- consecration of Hagia Sophia by the emperor Justinian I after the reconstruction of the destroyed dome.

Disasters

  • A rockslide in the area of the delta of the Rhone triggers a tsunami in Lake Geneva ( Tauredunum event). The giant wave devastated on their 70 km long road by the lake, the riparian zones and finally reaches the location at the other end of the lake late antique city of Geneva, which is largely destroyed.

Born

  • 563: Chindaswinth, Visigothic king († 653 )
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