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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Other

Events

By Place

Europe

★ October 26 — An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings, and many deaths.

★ End of the reign of king Sevar and thus of the House of Dulo in Bulgaria.

★ Pippin III marries Bertrada of Laon.

Asia

★ September — The Daysan River floods Edessa.

★ Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang'an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government made an order for fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriched not only diets of the people but also the surroundings.

By Topic

Religion

★ The Khazars, a nation of the Black Sea steppe, though not ethnically Jewish, voluntarily convert to Judaism.

★ St. Cuthbert becomes archbishop of Canterbury.

Births

★ Layman Pang, Chinese Buddhist (d. 808)

Deaths

★ Saint Æthelwald, Bishop of Lindisfarne

★ Zhang Jiuling, poet, scholar, and ex-Chancellor of Tang China (b. 678)

★ Zayd ibn Ali, Fifth Zaidi Shia Imam, killed in a Shi'ite revolt in Kufa

★ Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (born 680)

★ Meng Haoran, Chinese poet (born 689)

Other

★ Intel 740, video graphics chipset.