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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

Era of Diocletian: 357/358 ( year November )

Syria: 952/953 (October)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Islamic expansion

• Muslim Conquest: The Arabs conquer the Byzantine fortress situated in the modern-day Cairo; built a little later Amr ibn al-As north of it the city of Fustat, the nucleus of today's metropolis. Beginning of the Islamic period in Egypt.

Frankish Empire

• Duke Radulf of Thuringia rises against the rule of the Frankish Empire and makes his duchy largely independent.
• After the death of the mayor of the palace of Neustria Aegas Erchinoald takes office.

Balkans

• To 641: Slavs destroy the city of Salona near Split.

Japan

• End of the reign of Japanese Emperor Jomei.

Born

• To 641: Asparuch, Khan of the Bulgarian Empire ( † about 702)

Died

• May 25. Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor

• Aegas, Meier House of Neustria
• Arichis, Duke of Benevento
• David Tiberius, Byzantine co-emperor (* 631)
• Fara, baierischer Noble
• Heraklonas, Byzantine emperor (* 626)
• Martinos, Byzantine co-emperor (c. 633 )
• Zainab bint Jahsh, the wife of Muhammad (* 592 )