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Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Era of Diocletian 713/714

Syria: 1308/ 09 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Stephen I ( Hung, István I. ), later became the first King of Hungary and national saint, succeeds his father as Duke Géza of Hungary.
  • Kenneth III. follows his distant cousin Constantine III. to the Scottish throne after. He is the last Scottish King, who is elected by the traditional Tanistry system.

Religion

  • Crescentius I. Nomentanus rises John Philagathos, last Bishop of Piacenza, as John XVI. Antipope.
  • In Pavia suspended Gregory V of the Council of the Clergy Verzy at Reims.

Born

  • Alain III. , Duke of Brittany
  • Theophanu, Abbess of Essen

Died

  • Aldebert I, Count of La Marche and Périgord
  • Constantine III. , King of Scotland
  • Novel, Tsar of Bulgaria
  • Stjepan Držislav, King of Croatia
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