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Events

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Asia

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Religion

Births

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Events

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Asia

★ Beginning of Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty in China. She was China's first and only female emperor, ruling on her own accord.

★ The approximate date of the earliest known blindfold chess, played by Sa'id bin Jubair [1]

By Topic

Religion

★ Building of the Dome of the Rock

Births

★ Rotrude of Treves, Duchess of the Franks (d. 724)

★ Pelayo, first king of Asturias (d. 737)

★ Rhodri Molwynog ap Idwal, king of Gwynedd in Wales

Deaths

★ September 19 — Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)