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Events

Europe

Africa

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

Europe

★ Clovis II king of Neustria and Burgundy, marries the future Saint Bathilde

Africa

★ The bakt between Egypt and Makuria is signed

Asia

★ Yazdegard III is killed in Merv by his followers, ending both Persian resistance to Arab conquest, and the Sassanid dynasty.

★ Arabs invade Afghanistan and capture Herat.

★ Qur'an is written down.

Births

★ Li Ssu-Hsun, Chinese painter (died 716)

Deaths

★ August 31 — Saint Aidan, missionary and first bishop of Lindisfarne

★ Yazdegard III, last king of the Sassanids (killed by followers)