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Events 690s – Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibrord

The life of Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibrord Events 690: Pro-Buddhist imperial consort Wu Zetian seizes power and rules as Empress of China. 691: Buddhism is made the state religion of China. 698: The Arabs capture Carthage from the Byzantine Empire. 698: Active but unofficial anti-Christian persecution begins in China 698: North–South States Period begins in Korea. The approximate date of the earliest known blindfold chess, played by Sa’id ibn Jubayr Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary, travels from York with 12 Benedictine monks to Westkapelle, (modern Netherlands) to Christianize the pagan Frisians. Willibrord, Northumbrian missionary, becomes the first bishop of Utrecht (Netherlands). He returns to Frisia to preach, and builds numerous churches Radbod, king of the Frisians, retreats to the island of Heligoland in the North Sea

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