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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Era of Diocletian: 465/466 ( year November )

Syria: 1060/61 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • The king of the Lombards, Ratchis is overthrown and brought in his place his brother Aistulf the new king
  • After the death of King Ælfwald of East Anglia, follow Hun, Beorna and Aethelberht I. together in the rule.
  • First mention of Turks field.

Islamic expansion

  • Abu al - Abbas as- Saffah can be in Kufa proclaimed caliph and founded the dynasty of the Abbasids, with Baghdad as its capital. He fights against the incumbent (last) of the Umayyad caliph, Marwan II.
  • The Prophet of the Berbers, Salih ibn Tarif, using the crisis of the Caliphate and calls the kingdom Bargawata from North Africa.

Japan

  • Koken is Tennō of Japan, it solves Shōmu moved from.

America

  • K'ak ' Yipyaj Chan K'awiil is ruler of the Mayan city of Copan.

Nature and Environment

  • MARCH 23: Total Solar Eclipse in today's Romania and on the northern Black Sea coast.

Born

  • January 25 749 or 750: Leo IV, Emperor of Byzantium († 780)

Died

  • December 05: St. John of Damascus, Orthodox theologian (c. 650)
  • Ælfwald, King of East Anglia
  • Gyoki, Buddhist monk (* 668 )
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