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Events
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Europe
Africa
Asia
Births
Deaths

Events


By Place

Europe


Bede publishes ''On the reckoning of time'' ''De temporum ratione'' calculating dates from the birth of Christ. The AD system is subsequently disseminated throughout western Europe.
Africa


★ In Egypt resentment of the Copts against taxation, led to a revolt.
Asia


★ In China, the Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, astronomer, and mechanical engineer Yi Xing applies the world's earliest known clockwork escapement mechanism to provide rotating motion to his astronomical armillary sphere.

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April 23Wihtred, king of Kent

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