Quiet field
669
The year was full. This aperture was quiet.
Theodore of Tarsus, a Greek-speaking scholar from Cilicia, arrived in Britain as archbishop of Canterbury in 669. That is a real movement of learning across the former Roman world. It is not promoted into the later instrument pattern.
How we know
Bede gives the day: Theodore reached Canterbury on Sunday, 27 May 669. Consecration had been 26 March 668. The arrival is the 669 fact.
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History 4.1–2. Theodore of Tarsus, consecrated 26 March 668, reached his church at Canterbury on Sunday 27 May 669. See the record
- Theodore of Tarsus arrives in Canterbury
- Tang Gaozong’s court
- Umayyad caliphate
- Asuka / early Japanese state
The aperture
A possible EDUCATION / CONNECTION candidate, held as weak rather than forced.
Regions checked
- Europe
- Middle East
- East Asia (Tang)
- North Africa
- South Asia
Included / excluded
- Excluded: Theodore of Tarsus as an education-pattern hit. Independently interesting, but promoting a single appointment into the later cluster would shift the threshold.
68 | 69 | 70
Same century. Same research threshold. Matched frames. Neither pane brighter except that the middle year is the selected aperture.
668
Neighbor
Fall of Goguryeo to Tang and Silla. A neighbor year of large East Asian consequence.
669
Aperture
A possible EDUCATION / CONNECTION candidate, held as weak rather than forced.
670
Neighbor
Continuing Tang and caliphal campaigns.