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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Era of Diocletian: 482/483 ( year November )

Syria: 1077/78 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Emperor Constantine V leaves the Valens Aqueduct in Constantinople Opel renovate.
• The Bulgarians following the Khan Subin first Umor in the rule which has been replaced in the same year of Toktu.

Asia

• The Khazars are from the western Turkish Kaganat independent.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First documentary mention of the places Bechtolsheim, Dossenheim, Eggenstein, Feudenheim, Gau- Algesheim, Gimbsheim, Godramstein, Heppenheim, Hüffelsheim, Illingen, Ilves Home, Leeheim Leutkirch im Allgäu, Mannheim, Nussloch, Oberderdingen, Oftersheim, Ottmar home, Swabia an der Selz, Schwaigern, Schwetzingen, Seckenheim, guard home on the wine street and city wall.
• First mention of " Waldgaus " (later Vaud).

Economy

• History of Beer: The oldest preserved beer certificate documenting a shipment of Geisingen to St. Gallen.

Religion

Born

• 766/767: Al- Hadi, fourth caliph of the Abbasids († 786)

Died

• 06 March: Chrodegang, Archbishop of Austrasia and Bishop of Metz, Saint (c. 715)