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Heads of State

Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Era of Diocletian: 374/375 ( year November )

Syria: 969/970 (October)

Events

  • Completion of the Frankish Fredegar Chronicle.
  • The Byzantine Emperor Constans II undertakes a campaign in the Balkans. He manages to defeat the Slavs in Macedonia and to provide the local territory again under Byzantine suzerainty. Part of the defeated Slavs is relocated to Asia Minor.
  • The nobility proclaimed Mercia Wulfhere king and distributes the Northumbrian rule.
  • By 658: After the death of Samos he founded the Slavic empire disintegrates again into individual tribes.

Born

  • Ali Zain al - Abidin, grandson of the Prophet and 4th Imam of the Shiites († 713)
  • To 658: Willibrord, missionary Anglo-Saxon origin, Apostle of the Frisians († 739 )

Died

  • To 658: Samo ruler of the first well known name (Western) Slavic
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