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Events

• July 5 - Martin I becomes pope
• Arabs conquer Cyprus
• Reccaswinth succeeds his father Chindaswinth as king of the Visigoths.
• Pope Martin I strongly condemns Monothelitism

Births

Deaths

• May 14 - Pope Theodore I
• John Climacus, Christian saint (approximate date)
• Saint Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, evangelist to the West Saxons (approximate date)
• Chindaswinth , king of the Visigoths.