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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Era of Diocletian: 302/303 ( year November )

Syria: 897/898 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • April / May: Reccared I will succeed his late father Leovigild king of the Visigoths.
  • Slavs are advancing until Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.
  • Avars destroy a series of Roman forts along the Danube limes, including Oescus and Ratiaria.

Asia

  • Roman- Persian Wars: The Eastern Romans beat the Sassanids in Solachon near Dara.

Culture and Religion

  • Comgall founded the monastery of Bangor in Northern Ireland.
  • The British King Constantine of Cornwall converted to Christianity.
  • The Rabbula Gospels is completed.

Died

  • APRIL 21: Leovigild, Visigoth King
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