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events

politics and world happening

• the Japanese empress Kogyoku in a coup d'etat is set off, their successor becomes in the same year Kotoku. Beginning of the Taika - era and the Taika reforms
• assumption of office of the Numerianusas an archbishop of Trier
• the Byzantine field gentleman Manuel conquers Alexandria after three-year Arab occupation in the hand caper back
• king Penda of Mercia conquers Wessex and drives its king out Cenwalh, which flees to the yard of king Anna von East Anglia

born

• Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria, († 685)
• Jitō, 41. Empress of Japan († 703)