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Byzantine Empire
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Maurice, in warfare against the Avars and always dealing with the lack of money, decreed that army should stay for winter beyond the
Danube, which would prove to be a serious mistake. The exhausted troops mutinied against the Emperor.
Phocas kills Maurice and declares himself emperor.
★ Beginning of a series of wars between the Byzantine Empire and the
Sassanid Empire.
Births
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Mu'awiyah, founder of the
Umayyad Dynasty of
caliphs (approximate date)
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Xuanzang, famous
Chinese Buddhist monk
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Theodore of Tarsus,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
690)
Deaths
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