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Heads of State

Year of The Fire Tiger丙寅( at the beginning of the year Wood Buffalo乙丑)

Era of Diocletian: 382/383 ( year November )

Syria: 977/978 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Muslim Conquest: conquest of the Arabs against the Byzantine rule in North Africa.

Religion

• The Byzantine Emperor Constans II solves the church of Ravenna from the suzerainty of Rome under Pope Vitalian and makes it into an independent church.

• Erkenwald, Bishop of London, built Barking Abbey.

• In the dispute over the archbishopric of York, Chad may initially prevail against Wilfrid.

Nature and Environment

• September 4: Total solar eclipse in Spain.