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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <h3>By place</h3> <h4>Asia</h4> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gunakamadeva/BobJSWP8">Gunakamadeva</a>, <a href="/facts/Licchavi_(kingdom)/1lMPIdKt">Lichhavi</a> ruler (<i><a href="/facts/Raja/IkXwjj61">rajah</a></i>), founds the city of <a href="/facts/Kathmandu/0346ho1j">Kathmandu</a> (modern <a href="/facts/Nepal/yWCzTBR2">Nepal</a>). During his reign, he transforms the <a href="/facts/Agrarianism/wqrNlmje">agrarian</a> society to an <a href="/facts/Industrial_society/VJgamU0a">industrial</a> city trading between <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a> and <a href="/facts/Tibet/NQChzGo9">Tibet</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>By topic</h3> <h4>Religion</h4> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Saint_Boniface/xWUg49bv">Boniface</a>, Anglo-Saxon <a href="/facts/Missionary/AtfQeYq3">missionary</a>, fells <a href="/facts/Donar%27s_Oak/UK8NY2aq">Thor's Oak</a> (a <a href="/facts/Tree_worship/STUrmvkK">sacred tree</a>) near <a href="/facts/Fritzlar/L3fAn7Y6">Fritzlar</a> in <a href="/facts/Hesse/kEmEjUK9">Hesse</a>, marking the decisive event in the <a href="/facts/Christianization/ofJwq42c">Christianization</a> of the northern <a href="/facts/Germanic_peoples/N16QoPA7">Germanic tribes</a> (approximate date).</li> <li>Boniface makes <a href="/facts/B%C3%BCraburg/GWXIfwvB">Büraburg</a>, a fortified <a href="/facts/Francia/0fNvWt3n">Frankish</a> settlement, his temporary <a href="/facts/Religion/cxntrD0R">religious</a> base.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Arbeo_of_Freising/gQDtA9Uv">Arbeo</a>, bishop of <a href="/facts/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Munich_and_Freising/YmbBNSWE">Freising</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Isonokami_no_Yakatsugu/cGtTJFSE">Isonokami no Yakatsugu</a>, Japanese <a href="/facts/Nobility/WLPIA8GT">nobleman</a> (d. <a href="/facts/781/RHWtUn8B">781</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/October_3/vvevkuTv">October 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Elias_I_of_Antioch/3RLxnm6C">Elias I of Antioch</a>, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Adalbert,_Duke_of_Alsace/ewjsskaS">Adalbert</a>, duke of <a href="/facts/Duchy_of_Alsace/3myB4KqQ">Alsace</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Fachtna_mac_Folachtan/fzsNRUml">Fachtna mac Folachtan</a>, Irish <a href="/facts/Abbot/qBsBj5EW">abbot</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/%C5%8C_no_Yasumaro/EvCd0xNF">Ō no Yasumaro</a>, Japanese nobleman</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Encyclopedia Britannica <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249388/Raja-Gunakamadeva" target="_blank">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249388/Raja-Gunakamadeva</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Harrack, Amir (1999). The Chronicle of Zuqnin, Parts III and IV A.D. 488–775. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. p. 158. ISBN 9780888442864. <a href="9780888442864" target="_blank">9780888442864</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>