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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ October 17 — The Adige River overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of Verona.

★ Plague in Rome.

Asia

★ End of the Chen Dynasty and complete destruction of Jiankang (Nanjing), the last of the Southern dynasties in China; China reunited under the Sui Dynasty.

★ The Chinese scholar-official Yan Zhitui makes the first reference to the use of toilet paper in human history.

By Topic

Religion

★ Third Council of Toledo called by King Reccared of the Visigoths kingdom renounces Arianism and embraces Catholicism.

★ The Council of Narbonne held.

Births

★ Bavo, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint

Deaths

★ Emperor Sushun, emperor of Japan

★ March 1 — Saint David, the patron saint of Wales