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Heads of State

Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

Era of Diocletian: 351/352 ( year November )

Syria: 946/947 (October)

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Events

Politics and World Affairs

• January: Islamic Expansion: In the battle of Fahl the Arabs defeat the Byzantine Empire crucial.
• Autumn: The Arabs conquer the Christian Syria with the capital, Damascus, and the Christian Palestine and attack the Persian Sassanid Empire in Mesopotamia.

Religion

• Synod in Konstanz
• The Nestorian missionary Alopen arrives in China.

• The monastery of Lindisfarne on Holy Iceland off the coast of Northumbria founded by Abbot Aidan at the instigation of the Northumbrian king Oswald.

Born

• May 20: K'inich Kan Balam II, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque († 702)

• Yi Jing, a Buddhist monk († 713)

• 635: Pippin the Middle Franconian house Meier († 714)
• 635: Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht ( † 705)

Died

• JUNE 25: Tang Gaozu, founder of the Tang dynasty in China ( * 566 )