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Heads of State

Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

Era of Diocletian: 567/568 ( year November )

Syria: 1162/63 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Battle of Dundalk Bay in Ireland between Fingall ( Norwegians ) and Dubhgall ( Danes ).
• First mention of the Witten district Herbede.
• The first written mention of the village Wallonhurst, today's Wall Horst, in his De miraculis sancti Alexandri.
• The first written mention of the village Wilshem, today Wilsum, in the De miraculis sancti Alexandri.
• Marsens and Tegerfelden are first mentioned.

Religion and Culture

• The Liudolfinger Altfrid is Bishop of Hildesheim.
• The Arab merchant Sulaiman spread Islam in the Indian Malabar Coast.
• Construction of the Great Mosque of Sousse, under the Emir of Aghlabids, Abū ʾ l - ʿ Abbās Muhammad I (now World Heritage Site).

Died

• 07 March: Nominoë, Breton prince
• 20 March: Ermengarde of Tours, wife of Emperor Lothair I ( c. 795)
• 20 March: Ebo of Rheims, Archbishop of Reims, Bishop of Hildesheim (c. 778 )