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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of State

Events

★ March 5 — Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book ''Safarnameh''.

★ December 20 — Pope Gregory VI accused of simony at Council of Sutri — abdicates as pope.

★ December 25 — Pope Clement II succeeds Pope Gregory VI as the 149th pope.

★ First contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks.

★ Vatha Pagan Revolt in Hungary — Gerard Sagredo martyred in Budapest.

★ Henry III crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.

★ The famous Song Dynasty Chinese judge and magistrate Bao Qingtian writes a memorial to the throne warning about governmental corruption and a foreseeable bankruptcy of the Chinese iron industry if increasingly poorer families continued to be listed on the register for iron-smelting households (while more rich households avoided being listed out of fear for financial calamity). Apparently the government heeded the warning, and was producing more iron product by the year 1078 than China ever had before.

Births

★ Matilda of Tuscany (d. 1114) (approximate date).

Deaths

★ Gerard Sagredo, missionary to Hungary

Heads of State

★ Byzantine Empire — Constantine IX (reigned 1042–1055)

★ England — Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066)

★ France — Henri I (reigned 1031–1060)

★ Scotland — Macbeth (reigned 1040–1057)

★ Ireland — Interregnum (1022–1072)

★ Germany — Henry III (King of Germany 1039–1105, Holy Roman Emperor 1046 to 1105)