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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Dragon丙辰( at the beginning of the year wood rabbit乙卯)

Era of Diocletian: 432/433 ( year November )

Syria: 1027/28 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• After the Neustrian house Meier Raganfrid and the Merovingian king Chilperic II pulled against the house austrischen Meier, Charles Martel and the area devastated by Cologne, Charles Martel manages a counter-offensive: he defeated his rivals in the battle of Amblève.
• Aethelbald succeeds Ceolred as king of Mercia.
• Osred I, King of Northumbria, falls in battle against the Picts. Successor will Cenred.

• To 716: Faramundus becomes bishop of Cologne

Asia

• Kutluq bilge Kül Khan becomes ruler of the Second Empire of Göktürks. He initiates a policy of expansion of his empire.

Religion

The Anglo-Saxon missionary Wynfreth undertakes a first mission trip to the Frisians. However, the missionary founders on the frieze Duke Radbod, a heathen and enemies of the Franks, who has just recaptured the southwest Friesland of these. So versa Wynfreth, later known as St. Boniface, in the fall after Nursling back.

Born

• Sufyan ath - Thawri, Islamic scholar († 778 )

Died

• September 29: Ceolfrid, Abbot of Jarrow, Holy (* 630)

• Abd al- Aziz ibn Musa, governor of the Umayyad Empire in Al- Andalus
• Æthelred, king of Mercia
• Ceolred, King of Mercia
• Osred I, King of Northumbria (* 696 )