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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Pig丁亥( at the beginning of the year Fire Dog丙戌)
Era of Diocletian: 403/404 ( year November )
Syria: 998/999 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Pepin II, the house Meier of Austrasia, triumphs over the majordomo of Neustria in the Battle of Tertry.
- Egica becomes king of the Visigoths as the successor of Erwig, his father in law.
- Uprising in Kent against foreign rule by Wessex and its governor Mul, is burned. The turmoil uses King Æthelred of Mercia to extend its power.
Religion
Died
- SEPTEMBER 21: Conon, Pope
- Erwig, King of the Visigoths
- Mul, King of Kent
- Indicative Rudis, abbess and saint (c. 614)
- Romuald I, Duke of Benevento