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Heads of State

Year of the Water Snake癸巳( at the beginning of the year Water Dragon壬辰)

Era of Diocletian: 469/470 ( year November )

Syria: 1064/65 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Campaign of the Frankish king Pippin the Younger against the Saxons.
• Pope Stephen II presents King Pepin the fake certificate of the Donation of Constantine, in order to maintain a supposedly already on Emperor Constantine declining temporal power of the Pope.
• Construction of Old Ladoga as a base in present-day northwestern Russia.
• Reconquista: King Alfonso I of Asturias defeated the Moors who need to withdraw from Astorga.
• Grifo, the half-brother of King Pippin the Younger, who has rebelled against this, falls at St. Jean -de- Maurienne in Burgundy.
• First mention of Aschersleben and Ferrara

Religion

• Hildegar is mentioned as Bishop of Cologne, he is slain by Saxons.
• Sidonius is Bishop of Passau.
• Is Eoban Bishop of Utrecht.

Died

• August 08, Hildegar of Cologne, Bishop of Cologne

• November 03, Pirminius, monastery founder and saint (c. 670 )

• Grifo, half-brother of the Frankish king Pepin (c. 726 )
• Li Linfu, Chinese official