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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Ansprand succeeds Aripert as king of the Lombards.

★ From North Africa, Musa bin Nusair reinforces last year's Muslim invasion of Iberia.

★ June 12 — Liutprand succeeds his father Ansprand as king of the Lombards.

Asia

★ Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China succeeds Emperor Ruizong of Tang China as emperor of China. The plot of Empress Taiping's coup fails.

★ The ''Kojiki'', a history of Japan from its birth, is completed.

Births

★ Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph (d. 775)

★ Du Fu, Chinese poet (d. 770)

★ Collins Samuel, Indian Prince (d. 1990)

Deaths

★ Aripert, king of the Lombards

★ Ansprand, king of the Lombards