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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)
Era of Diocletian: 572/573 ( year November )
Syria: 1167/68 ( year October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Religion
- Louis the German appointed Charles of Aquitaine archbishop of Mainz.
Died
- February 04: Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz (c. 780)
- September 20: I. Warin, abbot of the monastery of Corvey (* 800 )
- 08 December: Drogo of Metz, Bishop (* 801)
- December 23: Hildegard, daughter of Louis the German (* 828)
- Abū ʾ l - ʿ Abbās I. Muhammad ibn al - Aghlab, Emir of Aghlabids