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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)
Era of Diocletian: 352/353 ( year November )
Syria: 947/948 (October)
Events
Asia
- The city of Basra was founded by Caliph Umar as a trading post and Arab camp.
- Beginning of the decisive phase of the Arab expansion: August 20: Battle of Yarmuk: The Byzantines are subject to the invading Arabs under their commander Khalid ibn al - Walid and lose Syria and Palestine. Only a few points, including Jerusalem, can keep for a short time before they too will be conquered.
- November: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- Battle of Kadesia ( according to recent considerations only 638 ): The Sassanid commander Rostam Farrokhzad subject among the Arabs under their commander Saad ibn Abi Waqqas and have to leave Mesopotamia. Rostam falls in battle. Also Ctesiphon falls shortly afterwards in Arab hands.
Europe
- Chintila becomes king of the Visigoths as the successor of Sisenand.
- Rothari is king of the Lombards as the successor of Arioald.
- First record of the village Altrich and the Belgian Huy.
America
- Yuknoom Ch'een II, called the Great, becomes king of the Maya state of Calakmul. He leads the city-state in the sequel to the height of its power development.
Born
- By 636: Æthelthryth, Anglo-Saxon Saints ( † 679 )
Died
- 04 April: Isidore of Seville, Doctor of the Church (c. 560)
- Arioald, King of the Lombards
- Cwichelm, King of Wessex
- Rostam Farrokhzad, Eran Spāhbod ( Reich commander ) in the Sassanid Empire
- Sa ʿ d ibn ʿ ibn Ubada Dulaim, Muhammad's
- Sisenand, King of the Visigoths
- By 636: George of Pisidia, East Roman poet