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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Monkey甲申( at the beginning of the year, water - sheep癸未)

Era of Diocletian: 460/461 ( year November )

Syria: 1055/56 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

Europe

• Alamanni Duke Theudebald rebelled in Alsace, home Meier Pippin sells him and bring the Alsace region back under his control.
• After the death of King Liutprand Lombards in February, his nephew Hildeprand is first his successor, who will be overthrown in October of the same year of Ratchis, the Duke of Friuli. Duke of Friuli is Aistulf, the future King.
• First mention of Gerstungen and Straußfurt as well as Berlikon Perolvinchova.

Africa

• The Berber Salih ibn Taif explained to the Prophet and later founded their own kingdom of Bargawata.

Religion

• March 2: The Synod of Soissons regulates questions of church order in the Frankish Empire.
• March 3: Abel Archbishop of Reims.
• SEPTEMBER 24: The mortal remains of St. Rupert of Salzburg to be buried by the local Bishop John I. Episcopal Church.

• The monastery of Fulda was founded by order of Boniface by his pupil Sturmius Benedictine monk.
• Theophylact is the successor of Stephen IV as Patriarch of Antioch.

Died

• January: Liutprand, King of the Lombards
• April 17; al - Walid II, Caliph of the Umayyad (* 706)
• SEPTEMBER 25: Yazid III, Caliph of the Umayyad (* 701).

• Huoching, Duke of the Alemanni (c. 675)