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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)

Era of Diocletian: 305/306 ( year November )

Syria: 900/901 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Roman- Persian Wars

  • April: Kaiser Maurikios takes on the intended reduction Sold distance, thereby ending the revolt of his troops to the Persian front.
  • The Eastern Roman commander Heraclius the Elder, father of the future Emperor Heraclius, defeated a Persian army near Nisibis.
  • The army commander Bahram IV Chobin rebelled against the Persian king Hormizd

Imperial China

  • Emperor Wen Di, founder of the Sui dynasty, conquered Jiankang (today's Nanjing), the seat of the Chen dynasty that goes with it. China is reunited after some three centuries of division.

Europe

Religion

  • In Spain, the credo is taken with the Filioque addition to the Mass liturgy at the 3rd Council of Toledo. After the conversion of the king of the Visigoths I. Reccared from Arianism to the Catholic faith, this is proclaimed as the state religion; in consequence there an increase in persecution of Jews (see Anti-Judaism # Iberian Peninsula).
  • Ursinus is Bishop of Constance.
  • To 589: Sigimund is Bishop of Mainz.

Disasters

  • The plague raged in Rome.

Born

  • To 589: Eligius, Franconian politician, priest, missionary in Flanders ( † 659 or 660 )

Died

  • Ingo Berga, Frankish queen (c. 520)
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