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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)
Era of Diocletian: 477/478 ( year November )
Syria: 1072/73 ( the year in October )
Events
- NOVEMBER 25: Reconquista: the establishment of the city of Oviedo to San Vicente church, which is dedicated to Saint Vincent of Lérins. The city is funded by the Asturian king Fruela I..
- The Abbasids manages to defeat Ibn Rustam in the province of Ifriqiya; he flees to western Algeria; Abu al - Khattab al - Maafiri who had Ibn Rustam as governor, comes in the struggle for life.
- Telez of the dynasty is Ugain Khan of the Bulgars as the successor of Vinech, who belonged to the house Uki.
- Brude V., after the death of Aengus I King of the Picts.
Died
- JANUARY 29: David Bishop
- December 18: Wunibald, saint and abbot of Heidenheim (* 701)
- December 23: Gaubald, first bishop of the diocese of Regensburg (c. 700)
- Aengus I, King of the Picts
- Abu al - Khattab al - Maafiri, Imam of the Ibadis in the Maghreb
- Shi Siming, Chinese rebel leader