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Heads of State
Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)
Era of Diocletian: 399/400 ( year November )
Syria: 994/995 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Africa and Asia
- Muslim Conquest: The Berbers under Kusaila ibn Lemzem destroy a Muslim army in the Maghreb / Auresgebirge. The Muslim Uqba ibn Nafi commander ʿ ʿ falls, the Arabs have to pull back on the Cyrenaica. Kusaila captured in the sequence Qairawan and large parts of North Africa.
- Mu ʿ āwiya II is Caliph Yazid as successor of I.
- Abdallah ibn az- Zubair was proclaimed caliph in Mecca against the Umayyads.
- Zhongzong is the successor Gaozong as emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China.
America
- AUGUST 28: K'inich Janaab ' Pakal I, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque dies. His successor is his son K'inich Kan Balam II, who is enthroned beginning 684.
Religion
- After the death of Pope Leo II followed by one year Sedisvakanz because the elected Benedict II before ordination only requires the approval of the Byzantine Emperor.
Born
- Burkard, first bishop of Würzburg ( † 755 )
- Mommu, Japanese Emperor († 707)
- Yi Xing, Chinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and Buddhist monk († 727)
Died
- June 28: Pope Leo II ( holy )
- AUGUST 28: K'inich Janaab ' Pakal I, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque (* 603)
- Tang Gaozong, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Uqba ibn Nafi, Islamic governor in North Africa (* 622)