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Year of the Wood Monkey甲申( at the beginning of the year, water - sheep癸未)

Era of Diocletian: 700/701 ( year November )

Syria: 1295/96 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Holy Roman Empire

  • Henry the Wrangler can be chosen as king and is supported by Duke Mieszko I of Poland, Duke Boreslaw II of Bohemia and King Lothar of France supported.
  • June 29: At the Diet in Rara ( tube / Thuringia ) Heinrich passes of Bavaria ( the Brawler ), the already crowned king under age three years of Otto III. to Theophanu.

Kingdom of León

  • Ramiro III. by Leon loses his throne to Bermudo II

Japan

  • August 27: Tenno En'yū abdicates at age 25, Kazan becomes Emperor of Japan.

Science and Technology

  • In China, the ship lock is invented by Qiao Weiyue, Deputy Commissioner for Transport in Huainan.

Religion

  • As his opponent is dead Emperor Otto II in the previous year, the previous anti-pope Boniface VII returns to Rome, Pope John XIV can capture and imprison in the Castel Sant'Angelo, and appointed himself Pope. On August 20, John XIV will probably murdered.

Died

  • August 20: John XIV, Pope since 983
  • Jordanes, first bishop of Poland
  • Miró Bonfill, Count of Besalu, Bishop of Girona

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