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• Saint Boniface fells Thor's Oak near Fritzlar, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes
• The world's first mechanical clock is allegedly built in China. See celestial globe.

Births For the Roman general of this name, see Bonifacius. ... Thors Oak was an ancient tree sacred to the Germanic tribe of the Catti, ancestors of todays Hessians, and one of the most important sacred sites of the Germans. ... Fritzlar, a small German town (pop. ... The historical phenomenon of Christianization, the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once (a political shift as much as a spontaneous mass shift in individual consciences), also includes the practice of converting pagan cult practices, pagan religious imagery, pagan sites and the pagan calendar... The term Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. ... Chinese history, astronomers have created celestial globes to assist the observation of the stars. ...

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