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Heads of State
Year of The Water Horse壬午( at the beginning of the year metal snake辛巳)
Era of Diocletian: 458/459 ( year November )
Syria: 1053/54 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Alamanni Duke Theudebald endows with Wasconen, Bavarians and Saxons in Alsace an uprising. The house Meier Pepin and Carloman draw against him in the field.
- The Lombard king Liutprand sets the Duke of Spoleto, Transemund, and sends him to the monastery.
- After the usurper Artabasdos has become the city of Constantinople Opel possession, this is besieged by Emperor Constantine V, who has resided in Asia Minor.
- Gisulf II becomes duke of Benevento.
Africa
- The Arabs succeed prostrate after several years of struggle the Berber revolt of Maysara.
Ersturkundliche mentions
- Mission Archbishop Boniface asks the Pope Zachary to the confirmation of " Erphesfurt " as a bishop 's seat ( first documented mention of Erfurt ).
- First mention of Tutzing.
Culture
- Li Bai is a poet at the court of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
Religion
- After forty years Sedisvakanz an Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch is determined by Stephan again; also of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al -Malik was involved in the decision.
- The bishops of the newly founded bishoprics of Würzburg and Büraburg be consecrated Boniface (see also 741 ).
- Chrodegang is Bishop of Metz.
- 742 or 743: Convening of the Concilium Germanicum.
Born
- To 742: al- Mahdi, the Abbasid Caliph († 785)
- To 742: Arno, Archbishop of Salzburg († 821 )
- To 742: Liudger, Bishop of Münster ( † 809)
Died
- Godescalcus, Duke of Benevento
- Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet (* 688 )