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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Water Buffalo癸丑( at the beginning of the year, water - rat壬子)

Era of Diocletian: 669/670 ( year November )

Syria: 1264/65 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • The former Chancellor Brun Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine.
  • The ailing Roman bridge over the Rhine at Cologne of 310 will be demolished. It will take over 900 years to 1855 again, a solid bridge over the Rhine at Cologne.
  • Invasion of the Moors in Galicia

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • The village Gutingi is first mentioned by Emperor Otto I.. Today there stands the city of Göttingen.

Born

  • Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese aristocrat
  • Charles of Lower Lorraine, west Frankish nobleman from the House of Carolingian

Died

  • 09 July: Wichfrid, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne (c. 900)
April 2014 List of centuries 8th century 12th century 910s 940s 950s 990s 943 948 958 963 Lorraine (region) Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Malayalam calendar Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine Al-Mansur Billah July 9
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