725

This year died Wihtred, King of Kent, on the ninth day before the calends of May, after a reign of thirty-two winters. His pedigree is above; and he was succeeded by Eadbert. Ina this year also fought with the South-Saxons, and slew Ealdbert, the etheling, whom he had before driven into exile.

(Ingram, p.48)

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The Venerable Bede popularised the use of the Anno Domini system through his famous work De Temporum Ratione, which was based on the Easter calculation of the sixth-century Scythian scholar Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Little).

(Lacey, p.14)