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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Dog戊戌( at the beginning of the year Fire Rooster丁酉)

Era of Diocletian: 294/295 ( year November )

Syria: 889/890 (October)

Events

Europe

  • OCTOBER 5: successor Justin II as Emperor of Byzantium is Tiberius Constantius I, who had already been raised to 574 co-emperor.

America

  • Butz Chan ( Smoking Heaven) is the ruler of the Mayan city of Copan.

Died

  • OCTOBER 5: Justin II, East Roman emperor (* 520)
  • Jacob Baradai, theologian of the Monophysite Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Wuffa, King of East Anglia
  • 578: 'Abd al - Muttalib, grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad (c. 497)
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