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Heads of State

Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Wood Tiger甲寅)

Era of Diocletian: 371/372 ( year November )

Syria: 966/967 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

Islamic expansion

• Muslim Conquest: Constans II suffers with in his respective Byzantine fleet in the Battle of Phoinix a crushing defeat by the Arabs.

Japan

• Kōgyoku is again after 642-645 Empress of Japan as the successor of Kotoku.

Religion

• Peada King of Mercia founded Peterborough Cathedral as one of the first Christian centers in England.
• Deusdedit is Archbishop of Canterbury.

Nature and Environment

Born

• 655: Saint Hubertus, Bishop († 727)
• 655: Childeric II Merovingian King of the Franks († 675)

Died

• Æthelhere, King of East Anglia