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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.

★ Battle of Pasinler — Seljuks defeat a force of Byzantines and Georgians.

★ July 16 — Pope Benedict IX driven from Rome, ending his third and final pontificate.

★ July 17 — Pope Damasus II succeeds Pope Benedict IX as the 151st pope.

Births

★ May 18 — Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1123)

★ May 25 — Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)

★ Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1118)

Deaths

★ August 9 — Pope Damasus II

★ December 13 — Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)