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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Era of Diocletian 712/713

Syria: 1307/ 08 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• First Italian campaign King Otto III. and coronation as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Robert II becomes King of France.
• Otto III. gives Freising market rights. The instrument is also a gift to the Bishop of Freising of some land in the area of Neuhofen an der Ybbs in regione vulgari vocabulo Ostarrîchi is mentioned. This is considered the first mention of Austria.
• First mention of Driel, Hard House and Büchenbach.
• Under the reign of King Otto III. is birth to Year 1 of a new era " after Christ " (Latin anno Domini, " in the year of our Lord " ) of Christ in the Holy Roman Empire. This plausible from a Christian perspective idea goes back to the living in the 6th century abbot Dionysius Exiguus.

Religion

• May 3: Brun ( o) of Carinthia as Gregory V first pope of today the German- German territory and is a relative of the imperial family.
• Is encoder hardware Bishop of Augsburg.

Born

• Alberto Azzo II d' Este, founder of the town of Este
• Giorgi I, King of Georgia

Died

• 000März. John XV, Pope

• October 24: Hugh Capet, King of France (* 940)

• Al - Aziz, the fifth Caliph of the Fatimids
• Hermann I, Count Palatine of Lorraine
• Richard I., the first Duke of Normandy
• Strachkvas or Christian, monk and chronicler in Bohemia. The year of death is unsecured.