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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey甲申)

Era of Diocletian: 401/402 ( year November )

Syria: 996/997 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• May 20: The King of the Picts Bridei III. mac Bili beats the king of Northumbria, Ecgfrith crucial ( Battle of Dunnichen Mere ). Successor of the Fallen Ecgfrith is Aldfrith.

• After the death of Constantine IV Justinian II is Emperor of Byzantium.
• Eadric raised up against the reign of his uncle, the king Hlothhere of Kent, whom he defeated and killed.
• Caedwalla is in Wessex successor of King Centwine.

Asia and Africa

• As of October 18: Rise of Mukhtar in Kufa in Iraq (up to 687 ).
• Abd al -Malik is Caliph of the Umayyad after the death of Marwan I.
• Hassan ibn is mān on -Nu ʿ governor of the Arabs in Africa.

Religion

• JULY 23: John V is Pope; he follows Benedict II

Born

• Maslamah, Arabic commander
• Tang Xuanzong, Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty ( † 762 )

Died

• 06 February: Hlothhere, King of Kent

• 08 May: Benedict II, Pope

• May 20: Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria (* 645 )

• Marwan I, Caliph (* 623)
• Constantine IV Pogonatos, Emperor of Byzantium (* 652 )
• Anania Shirakatsi, Armenian scholar, mathematician and geographer (* 610)

• 685: Centwine, King of Wessex

• Year ( 7th century )
• 685