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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Pig乙亥( at the beginning of the year Wood Dog甲戌)

Era of Diocletian: 511/512 ( year November )

Syria: 1106/ 07 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

Asia

• The General Tugluq assumes under the name Ay- Tengride dominion over the Uyghur.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• First mention of Arnscwhang, Behrungen, Hemsbach, Kaltennordheim, Laudenbach, Madiswil, Morlenbach, Mondorf, Rangendingen, Rimbach, Rohrbach and Wiesenthal ( Thuringia).

Economy

• 795: construction of a paper mill in Baghdad.

Religion

• The diocese of Cologne is raised to the archbishopric of Cologne. Hildebold becomes the first Archbishop of Cologne.
• After the death of Tilpin the Office of the Archbishop of Reims for 17 years remains unoccupied.
• 26th December: After the death of Hadrian I. Leo III. elected as the new pope. He sends the keys of Peter and the Roman banner to Charlemagne as the patrons of the city of Rome.

Disasters

• Earthquake in eastern Crete.

Born

• Bernard of Septimania, statesman at the court of Louis the Pious († 844 )
• Lothar I, Holy Roman -German Emperor († 855)
• Judith, Empress as wife of Louis the Pious († 843)
• Tang Muzong, Chinese emperor († 824 )

• 795 Meinolf, founder of the monastery Böddeken, Holy Roman Catholic Church († 857 )

Died

• December 25: Hadrian I, pope

• Gumbert, Bishop of Würzburg
• Malik Ibn Anas, founder of the Islamic school of law ( madhhab ) of the Maliki school (c. 715)
• Witzan, westslawischer military leader and ruler