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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ April 1 — King Alboin leads the Lombards into Italy; refugees fleeing from them go on to found Venice.

★ Leovigild succeeds his brother Liuva I as king of the Visigoths.

★ Æthelric succeeds his brother Adda as king of Bernicia (traditional date).

★ Ceawlin of Wessex defeats Ethelbert of Kent at the Battle of Wibbandun.

★ Sigebert I of Austrasia repels an attack from the Avars.

★ Fredegund becomes the mistress of Chilperic I after the murder of Galswintha.

Asia

★ The Turks and Sassanids succeed in destroying the Hepthalite empire.

★ A Turkish khan sends emissaries to Byzantium.

Births

★ Feng Deyi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 627)

★ Liu Wenjing, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 619)

Deaths

★ Adda, king of Bernicia (traditional date)

★ Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I of Neustria