706
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Heads of State
Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)
Era of Diocletian 422/423
Syria: 1017/18 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Battle of Bamburh: Osred I. defeats king Eadwulf of Northumbria and is its successor.
- Nechton mac Derelei is king of the Picts; he is trying to establish friendly relations with the Anglo-Saxons.
- Pemmo is the Lombard Duke of Friuli.
Religion
- By 706: On the Würzburg Marienberg the stone Lady Chapel is consecrated.
Born
Died
- Gisulf I, Duke of Benevento