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Events

By Place

Europe

Africa

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Rothari, King of the Lombards, issues the Lombard law code.

Africa

★ Arab armies win their first North African victory in Tripoli.

Asia

★ The last Sassanid king of Persia flees to China.

★ Chinese Tang ambassador sent to North India (Empire)

★ When the Chinese prefectural government officials traveled to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang'an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in, and were renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Emperor Taizong ordered the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.

Births

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Deaths

★ April 26 — Saint Richarius, French evangelist

★ April 29 — Hou Junji, Chinese general and Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

★ Wei Zheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 580)