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Heads of State

Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Era of Diocletian: 339/340 ( year November )

Syria: 934/935 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

East Asia

• In the battle of Gansu, the Chinese Tang Dynasty defeated the Kingdom Tuyuhun - according to tradition, with the help of an exotic dance.

• Start of several campaigns of Muhammad's followers from Medina to Mecca.
• Muhammad married Aisha bint Abi Bakr.

Europe

• June 5: An Avar ambush on the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius in peace negotiations near Heraclea fails. In the course of this, it comes to looting inside the Great Walls.

• Dagobert I (15 years) is used to print the Frankish nobility of his father, Clotaire II as king in Austrasia; Scrooge educator Arnulf of Metz.

• 623: Samo solves the western Slavs from the Avar domination and establishes as their leader a kingdom between the Avars and the Franks.
• 623: As part of the Slavic expansion individual groups reach the Greek Islands and Crete.

Science and Culture

• 623: Chlothar II leaves with the Lex Ribuaria and record the Pactus Legis Alamannorum the right of the people of the Rhine Franks or Alamanni.
• 623: Isidore of Seville published his 20-volume Etymologiae.

Born

• Marwan I, the Umayyad caliph († 685 )

• 623: Chad, Saint, Bishop of York ( † 672 )

Died

• Lupus of Sens, Bishop of Sens, Saint
• Finbarr, Bishop of Cork ( * 550 )

• Year ( 7th century )
• 623