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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Era of Diocletian: 525/526 ( year November )

Syria: 1120/21 ( the year in October )

Events

Europe

• Foundation of the castle Esesfeld at the sturgeon (west of Itzehoe ) by Emperor Charlemagne. The castle was the first Frankish attachment north of the Elbe.
• Emperor Charlemagne and King of Scotland Achaius arrange a military alliance.
• The Bulgarians under Khan Krum conquered in the battle of Serdica today's Sofia from the Byzantine Empire and interrupt so that the strategic Via Militaris by Konstantin Opel, which leads across Adrian Opel - Philippopolis - Serdica - Naissus through the Balkan Peninsula to Singidunum (now Belgrade ).
• First documentary mention of the place Wevelinghoven in the Erft.

Asia

• After the death of Haaroon al-Rashid al-Amin is the sixth Abbasid Caliph.
• Saga is Tennō and follows Heizei to the throne.

Born

• Tang Wenzong, Chinese emperor († 840)

• To 809: Walahfrid Strabo, Abbot of Reichenau († 849 )

Died

• MARCH 26: Liudger, Bishop of Münster (c. 742)

• Harun ar - Rashid, Abbasid Caliph (* 763 )