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AD 442Placed in a yearEast AsiaCulture and knowledge
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the jiashen day of the first lunar month of Taiping Zhenjun 3 (AD 442) the emperor went to the Daoist altar and personally received the talismanic registers (fulu 符籙), with the full ceremonial carriage prepared and all the banners blue-green.
Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals refer the details to the Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism (Shi Lao zhi), which was not checked here; the colour word qing (青) can mean blue or green.
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AD 442Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Eudoxius and Dioscorus (AD 442) that the brothers Bleda and Attila, kings of many peoples, laid waste Illyricum and Thrace.
Limits: The OCR interleaves the Greek comparison column with Latin text. The three cited Latin portions form one sentence; de- and populati belong to one word. The Greek column is not counted as a second witness.
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