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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ Maurice, in warfare against the Avars and always dealing with the lack of money, decreed that army should stay for winter beyond the Danube, which would prove to be a serious mistake. The exhausted troops mutinied against the Emperor. Phocas kills Maurice and declares himself emperor.

★ Beginning of a series of wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire.

Births

★ Mu'awiyah, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)

★ Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk

★ Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)

Deaths

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