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Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)

Era of Diocletian: 296/297 ( year November )

Syria: 891/892 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • From about 580: The Southern Slavs way before the Avars to the south, cross the Danube and begin the land acquisition in the Eastern Roman Empire in the territory of the present states of Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia and northern Greece; in the coming decades, they penetrate even to the Peloponnese before ( Slavic place names).
  • 580: Also to the west is an expansion of the Slavs instead: The Carantanians and Slovenes push the Slavic settlement area against the Lombards and Bavarians to Linz, the Mura and Drava ago.
  • 580 (?): Victory over Bernicias British at Caer Greuze.

Asia

  • An- Numan III. becomes ruler of the North -Arab Lakhmids.

Religion

  • The Diocese of Martigny is moved to Sion.

Born

  • Magnus Oderzo Christian saint († 670 )
  • Wei Zheng, Chinese politician ( † 643 )
  • 580: Agilus, abbot and missionary in Bavaria († 650 )
  • 580: Maximus the Confessor, Greek theologian († 662)
  • 580: Pippin the Elder " of Landen ", Franconian house Meier († 640)

Died

  • Audovera, Frankish queen (c. 535)
  • Martin of Braga, a bishop and a Catholic saint (c. 515)

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