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Heads of State
Year of the wood rat甲子( at the beginning of the year, water - pig癸亥)
Era of Diocletian: 440/441 ( year November )
Syria: 1035/36 ( the year in October )
Events
Europe
- Monastery bishop Pirmin founded under the protection of Charles Martel, the monastery of Reichenau on the island of Reichenau.
- Pope Gregory II calls the Thuringian on, the missionary Boniface to build a "home": the later Erfurt Cathedral.
- Geroldus is Bishop of Mainz.
- Nechton, leader of the Picts, abdicates and enters a convent. It comes to fighting for his successor.
- First mention of Allen's creek.
Asia
- Hisham is the successor of Caliph Yazid II of the Umayyad.
- Gensho, Empress of Japan, passes the reign of her nephew Shōmu moved because it has reached the age of majority. He is the 45th Emperor of Japan.
Died
- JANUARY 26: Yazid II, Caliph of the Umayyad
- 08 September 724: Korbinian, Bishop of Freising
- Rigibertus, Bishop of Mainz
- 724: Theudebert, Duke of Bavaria (c. 685 )