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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Era of Diocletian: 285/286 ( year November )

Syria: 880/881 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • October 3: collection of the Lombards under Alboin in Milan; several other cities surrender to the Lombards without a fight; Pavia, however, is under siege for three years. Meanwhile penetrate the Lombards south to Tuscia and in the Emilia before, during the Exarchate of Ravenna Eastern Roman remains.

Religion and Culture

  • The Nubian kingdom of Alodia is Christianized.

Died

  • Aretha the Lame, king of the Ghassanids
  • Fu Daishi, Zen monk, poet and inventor (* 497)
April 2014 List of centuries 8th century 520s 530s 540s 550s 570s 580s 590s 600s (decade) 559 564 574 579 Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Coptic calendar November 19 Poitiers Al-Harith ibn Jabalah
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