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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Era of Diocletian: 373/374 ( year November )

Syria: 968/969 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Autumn: After the death of King Clovis II is his son Clotaire III. Successor as king of Neustria and Burgundy; because he is still a minor, his mother Bathilde assumes the regency.

Asia

• JULY 26: Muslim Conquest: Battle of Siffin on the Euphrates: Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib and his challenger Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria, a multi-day bloody battle that ends with no clear winner supply. The fact that Ali finally consents to arbitration, leads to the separation of the Kharijites of the Shiites.
• The Emperor Tang Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks.

Religion

• JULY 30: Vitalian is enthroned as the successor of Eugene I. Pope.

• King Oswiu of Northumbria founds the monastery of Whitby Abbey. First Abbess Hilda is.

• To 657: Nivardus is Archbishop of Reims.

Died

• June 02: Eugene I., Pope

• Autumn: Clovis II, Merovingian king of Neustria and Burgundy ( * 634)

• Livinus of Ghent, Christian saint (c. 580)

• 656/657: Grimoald the Elder, Meier house in the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia part (c. 615)