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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)
Era of Diocletian: 313/314 ( year November )
Syria: 908/909 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Eastern Roman Empire
- Balkan campaigns of Maurikios: The Avars attack unexpectedly of the Eastern Roman Empire and close the imperial army in a Tomis on the Black Sea.
- Kaiser Maurikios seriously ill and regulates its successor: His older son will succeed him as emperor in Constantinople Opel, the second-born, however, renew the Western Roman Empire and reside in Rome. The two remaining sons may be provided as a emperor. The control never enters into force.
Britain
- After the death of Ceol is Ceolwulf King of Wessex.
Asia
- Yemen is part of the Sassanid Empire.
Religion
- Spring: Augustine landed with his companions, sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England, on the Isle of Thanet on the Thames Estuary. The king of Kent, Aethelberht invites her to take her seat in Canterbury. Augustine founded the same year the St Augustine's Abbey. Aethelberht itself is probably baptized around 601.
Born
- To 597: az- Zubayr ibn al - Awwam, companion of the Prophet Mohammed († 656)
- To 597: Zainab bint Chuzaima, wife of the Prophet Mohammed († 627 )