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Events
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Education
Religion
Births
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Events


By Topic

Education


The King's School is founded in Canterbury.
Religion


Saint Augustine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

Pope Gregory I sends a delegation of monks under the Roman Augustine to Britain to convert the English.

Births



Emperor KÅtoku, emperor of Japan

Chu Suiliang, Chinese Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 658)

Deaths



June 9 — Saint Columba

Fredegund, queen of Neustria

Zhiyi, founder of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism

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