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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)
Era of Diocletian: 582/583 ( year November )
Syria: 1177/78 ( the year in October )
Events
- In Asturias King Alfonso III follows. ( " The Great") to his father Ordoño I. to the throne and moved the capital to Leon.
- Alfonso the Great of Asturias conquered during the Reconquista Coimbra from the Moors.
- Al - Mu'tazz bi- ' llāh will Abbasid Caliph.
- The name Holland first mentioned as Holtland (wood land or forest land ) for the region around Haarlem.
- Courrendlin, Miécourt, Orvin, Sonceboz- Sombeval, Tavannes and Vicques are first mentioned.
Born
Died
Backed death
- APRIL 21: Bardas, Byzantine Regent
- May 27: Ordoño I, King of Asturias
- 21 June: Radulf of Bourges, Archbishop (c. 800 )
- June 22: Emenon, Count of Poitou and Angoulême
- JULY 16: Irmgard of Chiemsee, daughter of Louis the German
- September 29: Karl the child, west Frankish sub- king (c. 849 )
- October 17: Al- Musta'in bi- llah, Abbasid Caliph
- December 16: Eberhard of Friuli, Margrave of Friuli (* 810)
- December 22: Hungerus Frisus, Bishop of Utrecht (c. 800 )
More death unknown
- Hartwig von Passau, Bishop
- Liudolf, Count of Saxony (* 805 or 806)
- Ranulf I, Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine and abbot of Saint -Hilaire -de- Poitiers (c. 820)
- Robert the Brave, Count of Paris, Tours and Anjou
- 866 or 867: Linji Yixuan, Chinese Chan Buddhist