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Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)

Era of Diocletian: 656/657 ( year November )

Syria: 1251/52 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • King Otto I. distributes King Louis IV of Lorraine and enfeoffed his brother Henry with the Duchy. This may be there but not enforce.
  • Kempten im Allgäu monastery village is sacked by the Hungarians.
  • Saracen raid on Saint- Maurice and Fréjus.
  • Duke Hugh the Great pays homage to King Otto I in the royal palace Attigny.
  • Count Heribert II of Vermandois sells Artold Archbishop of Reims, there is his son Hugo again.
  • Odo of Canterbury mediated a peace treaty between the English King Edmund I. and Olaf Guthfrithsson.

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • First mention of Mörsch.

Born

  • Abu l - Wafa al Busdjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer († 998 )
  • Abū l - Qasem -e Ferdowsi, Persian poet and epic poet, lead author of the Shahnameh ( "King letter " ) ( † 1020)
  • Baldwin III. , Count of Flanders ( † 962)
  • Gregory of Calabria, first abbot of the abbey Burtscheid
  • Henry III. , Duke of Bavaria († 989)

Died

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