Events By Place Europe Rothari, King of the Lombards, issues the Lombard law code. Africa Arab armies win their first North African victory in Tripoli. Asia Pirooz, the son of the last Sassanid king of Persia, flees to Tang Dynasty China. A Chinese Tang ambassador's sent to the North Indian Empire. When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang'an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of… (More on 643)