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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Founding of the Royal Mint in England.

Asia

★ Destruction of Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty and the largest city in the ancient world.

★ Capture of Thessalonica by Saracens.

★ Abbasids invade Tulunid emirate of Egypt

By Topic

Religion

★ January 29 — Pope Sergius III succeeds Pope Leo V as the 119th pope; begins the era of the Pornocracy

Births

★ Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou

Deaths

★ January — Christopher the antipope

★ Zhaozong, 19th emperor of the Tang Dynasty