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Events

By Place

Europe

• The Royal Mint is founded in England.
• Thessalonica is captured by the Saracens.

Asia

• Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty China and the largest city in the ancient world, is destroyed.
• The Abbasids invade the Tulunid emirate of Egypt.

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Religion

• January 29 — Pope Sergius III succeeds Pope Leo V as the 119th pope; he 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

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