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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Era of Diocletian: 406/407 ( year November )

Syria: 1001/ 02 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• 690 or 691: Following the death Oswines is Wihtred King of Kent.

• 690 or 691: Following the death of King Theodoric III. is his son Clovis III. (13 years) King of the Frankish Empire. The regency accepts his mother; However, strong man of the country remains Pippin the Middle.

Asia

• Wu Zetian usurped the throne of China as Empress, thus ensuring that the Tang dynasty for 15 years interrupted by their Second Zhou Dynasty.

Religion

• Stephan is Archbishop of Cologne as the successor of Botandus.

Born

• 690: Hugh of Rouen, Frankish bishop of the Carolingian dynasty († 730)

Died

• Julian of Toledo, Archbishop, a baptized Jew (c. 652 )
• Benedict Biscop, Anglo-Saxon cleric (* 628)

• 690: Amalberga of Maubeuge, nun and saint (c. 600)
• 690: Nukata no Okimi, Japanese poet (c. 630)
• 690/691: Oswine, King of Kent
• 690/691: . Theodoric III, Merovingian King of the Franks (* 653 )