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==== Europe ====
* Spring &ndash; [[Witteric]], counting on the support of the [[Nobility|nobles]], attacks the royal [[palace]] in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], and overthrows King [[Liuva II]]. He cuts off his right hand, and has him executed. Witteric becomes the new king of the [[Visigoths]].<ref>Roger Collins, "Visigothic Spain 409–711", p. 73</ref>
* King [[Agilulf]] besieges [[Cremona]], and with the assistance of the [[Slavs]] the city is destroyed. He captures [[Padua]] and [[Mantua]] ([[Northern Italy]]); its territory is divided between the [[Lombards|Lombard]] duchies of [[Brescia]] and [[Bergamo]].  
* Agilulf, under the influence of his wife [[Theodelinda]], abandons [[Arianism]] for [[Catholicism]], and is (with his son [[Adaloald]]) baptised in the [[Duomo of Monza|Cathedral of Monza]], where later the [[Iron Crown of Lombardy]] is installed.
* The last mention of the [[Senate of the Roman Empire|Roman Senate]] on the Italian mainland is made (according to the [[Pope Gregory I|Gregorian]] register). It mentions that the Senate has acclaimed new statues of Emperor [[Phocas]] and Empress [[Leontia]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tsE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA246 Jeffrey Richards. The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, p. 246]</ref>