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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Hare辛卯(at the beginning of Metal Tiger庚寅)

Era of Diocletian: 407/408 ( year November )

Syria: 1002/ 03 (October)

Events

  • Autumn: In the domed hall of the imperial palace in Constantinople Opel Trullanische the Synod will take place. Pope Sergius I. recognizes the decisions of the Trullanums under pressure from the Byzantine emperor.
  • Caliph Abd al -Malik built at the site of the First and Second Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Dome of the Rock.
  • Empress Wu Zetian rises Buddhism in China as the state religion.

Born

  • Hisham, the Umayyad caliph

Died

  • Musab ibn az- Zubair, a Muslim military leader
  • 690/691: . Theodoric III, Merovingian King of the Franks (* 653 )
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