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• Clotaire I dies, and the Frankish kingdom is divided; Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia, Chilperic I becomes king of Neustria, Charibert becomes king of Paris, and Guntram becomes king of Burgundy.
• John succeeds Pelagius as Pope.
• Northern Qi Wu Cheng Di succeeds Northern Qi Xiao Zhao Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
• Battle of Cúl Drebene between the Northern and Southern Ui Neill.
• According to tradition, a pitched battle erupts after a dispute between Saint Columba and Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter. As penance for these deaths, Columba was ordered to make the same number of new converts as had been killed.
• Jnanagupta begins translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.

• March 4 - Pelagius, Pope
• Clotaire I, king of the Franks

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