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Heads of State

Year of The Fire Tiger丙寅( at the beginning of the year Wood Buffalo乙丑)

Era of Diocletian: 322/323 ( year November )

Syria: 917/918 (October)

Events

Europe

  • February 22: After the death of Pope Sabinianus there is an almost one-year Sedisvakanz.
  • Aquileia is collected at the Patriarchate.
  • Gaudentius is Bishop of Constance.
  • To 606: Ceorl becomes king of Mercia as the successor of Pybba.

Asia

  • Harsha from the House of Vardhana, who had risen in Guptareich to General, is ruler in Thanesvar in Delhi, where he developed a North Indian empire in the coming years.

Born

  • Fatima, daughter of Mohammed († 632)
  • To 606: Rothari, King of the Lombards († 652 )

Died

  • February 22: Sabinianus, Pope
  • Sengcan, Zen Buddhist patriarch in China
  • To 606: Pybba, King of Mercia (c. 570)
  • To 606: Desiderius, Archbishop of Vienne
  • Year ( 7th century )
  • 606
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