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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

  • Boniface founds Fritzlar. Also Ohrdruf in Thuringia is set up by him as a mission base.
  • 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 )
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