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Heads of State

Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

Era of Diocletian: 471/472 ( year November )

Syria: 1066/67 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Spring: King Pepin the Short passes over the Alps into Italy against the Lombards under King Aistulf. These are besieged in Pavia. Aistulf promises then to report to the pope he conquered areas. Pippin puts up with it and returns to the Frankish Empire.
  • August: Abd ar- Rahman I, the last surviving member of the Umayyad, who had fled from the persecution of the Abbasid caliphs to North Africa, is about to Andalusia, where he wants to build its own rule.

Has After the Frankish King Pepin the Ravenna conquered and forced Aistulf recognizing the Frankish supremacy, making the Exarchate of Ravenna has gone over to the Pope, the previously allied with the Lombards, Venetians see suddenly in an isolated and extremely vulnerable situation and revolt against the Dogen Diodato Ipato. The Byzantine partisans Galla Lupanio sat at the head of the revolt. Diodato Ipato is discontinued, blinded and driven away, Galla is fifth Doge of Venice.

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • First mention of Heppenheim and Weinheim.

Imperial China

  • An- Lushan rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

Religion

  • Lul is a bishop in Mainz as the successor of the murdered in Friesland in the previous year Boniface. The founded by Boniface Diocese of Erfurt, as previously the diocese Büraburg dissolved and incorporated into the diocese of Mainz.

Disasters

  • Famine in central China due to drought and floods favored the rebellion of An Lushan.

Died

  • Abu Muslim, Persian national hero and resistance fighter (c. 700)
  • Burkard, Bishop of Würzburg ( * 683 )
  • June 05, 754 or 755: Boniface, " Apostle of the Germans ", missionary and church reformer in the Frankish Empire (c. 673)
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