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Heads of State

Year of the Water Hare癸卯( at the beginning of the year Water Tiger壬寅)

Era of Diocletian: 479/480 ( year November),

Syria: 1074/75 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• June 30th: victory of the Byzantines over the Bulgarians in the Battle of Anchialos.
• Duke Tassilo III. of Bavaria refused the Frankish King Pepin the Younger the military service at the train against Aquitaine and thus breaks his vassal.

Asia

• The Abbasid Mugharif General takes action against the Emir of Córdoba, the Umayyad Abd ar- Rahman I, but is defeated by it.
• The Tang Emperor proposes finally settled the An- Lushan Rebellion, which for several years held China in unrest and reportedly more than 30 million lives to have cost.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First mention of Oberschopfheim, Pasing, Pfersdorf, Saulheim, Schöngeising, Swabia Home, Stetten and Imst.

Economy

• A document in the Swiss monastery of St. Gall was first mentioned in the fallow ( three-field ).

Religion

• Arbeo, who later became Bishop of Freising, is abbot in the monastery Scharnitz.
• Is Jaenbert Archbishop of Canterbury.

Born

• 763: Harun al-Rashid, Caliph († 809)

Died

• Jianzhen, Buddhist priest (* 688 )
• Kamalashila, Indian writer and scholar of Mahayana Buddhism (c. 713)
• Muḥammad ibn al- ʾ ib al - Kalbi Sā, Muslim historians, Koranexeget, genealogist and geographer