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Heads of State

Year of the Earth- pig己亥(at the beginning of earth - dog戊戌)

Era of Diocletian: 475/476 ( year November )

Syria: 1070/71 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Battle of the Rischkipass
  • Desiderius, King of the Lombards, makes his son Adelchis to co-regent.
  • The king of the Frankish Empire, Pippin the Younger, manages finally to conquer Septimania with Narbonne by the Moors and to incorporate his kingdom.
  • Æthelwald minor becomes King of Northumbria. He replaces King Oswulf.

Culture

  • The Japanese poet Ōtomo no Yakamochi introduces the Man'yōshū together the first major anthology of Japanese poems.

Religion

  • Bregwin is Archbishop of Canterbury.

Born

  • Asad ibn al - Furat, Muslim jurist and theologian († 828)
  • Quan Deyu, Chinese politician ( † 818)
  • Theodore the Studite, Abbot († 826 )

Died

  • Oswulf, King of Northumbria
  • To 759: Ratchis, King of the Lombards
  • To 759: Wang Wei, Chinese poet and landscape painter (* 698 )
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