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Calendar overview 616
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| 616 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 64/65 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 608/609 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1159/60 (southern Buddhism); 1158/59 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 55th (56th) cycle
Year of the Fire Rat丙子 ( at the beginning of the year wood pig 乙亥) |
| Jewish calendar | 4376/77 (September 17-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 332/333 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCCLXIX (1369)
Diocletian's era : 332/333 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 926/927 (April)
Syria: 927/928 (October) |
| Spanish era | 654 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 672/673 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Africa
- The Visigoths succeed in recapturing Ceuta from Ostrom .
- Roman-Persian Wars : Sassanid attack on Alexandria . Its patriarch John, who was known for his charity, fled to Cyprus .
Europe
- Eadbald succeeds Æthelberht as King of Kent . According to the Bedas report , Eadbald fell away from the Christian faith and was converted again by Lawrence of Canterbury .
- Battle of the River Idle: The army of the Northumbrian king Æthelfrith , who falls in battle, is subject to the troops of the king of East Anglia , Rædwald , who makes the pretender Edwin king of Northumbrias and himself takes on the title of Bretwalda . Æthelfrith's son Oswald flees to Dalriada , Scotland , where he is baptized by monks from Iona .
- around 616: After the death of King Sæberht , the first Christian king of Essex , his sons Sexred and Saeward jointly become his successors. You are returning to paganism.
Born
- around 616: Leodegar von Autun , bishop and martyr († 679 )
Died
- February 24th : Æthelberht , first Christian king of Kent and Bretwalda (* around 552 )
- Æthelfrith , King of Northumbria
- Gundoald , Duke of Asti (* 565 )
- around 616: Sæberht , Anglo-Saxon King of Essex
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