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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

Era of Diocletian: 317/318 ( year November )

Syria: 912/913 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Liuva II is the successor of Reccared I as king of the Visigoths.
  • Balkan campaigns of Maurikios: Eastern Roman troops under Petros push deep into the kingdom of the Avars and devastate the area to the Tisza.
  • The Lombards under Agilulf begin perennial campaigns against Byzantine territories in Italy.

Religion

  • Pope Gregory the Great sent Mellitus, Justus, Honorius and other missionaries to England to assist Augustine of Canterbury. They bring him with the pallium, so Canterbury is now raised to an archbishopric; on the island are a number of suffragan result of which, however, only the first dioceses in London can be realized by Mellitus and Justus at Rochester (both 604).
  • Arnual is Bishop of Metz.

Nature and Environment

Died

  • December: Reccared I, King of the Visigoths
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