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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rat戊子( at the beginning of the year fire - pig丁亥)

Era of Diocletian: 404/405 ( year November )

Syria: 999/1000 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Domnall succeeds Maelduin as king of the iro -Scottish kingdom of Dalriada.
• Caedwalla, King of Wessex, embarks on a pilgrimage to Rome. Successor as king Ine.
• King Æthelred of Mercia uses its influence in South East England to employ in Kent Oswine as king.
• After the death of Perctarit Cunincpert becomes sole king of the Lombards.

America

• K'inich B'aaknal Chaak is ruler of the Mayan city of Tonina.

Religion

• The Anglo-Saxon Wigbert begins with the missionary work of the Frisians.

Born

• Jianzhen, Buddhist priest († 763 )
• Marwan II, Caliph of the Umayyad Dynasty († 750 )
• Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet († 742)

• 688: Charles Martel, Frankish house Meier

Died

• Kusaila ibn Lemzem, leader of the Berbers against the Arab invaders
• Maelduin, King of Dalriada
• Perctarit, King of the Lombards
• Abū l - Aswad ad -Du alī ʾ, Arabic lexicographer, Quran readers and grammarian (c. 603)

• 09 April 688: Waltraud of Mons, Merovingian saints

• 688: Lantbert of Lyon, bishop (c. 625 )