1049

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Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of State

Events

★ February 12 — Pope Leo IX succeeds Pope Damasus II as the 152nd pope.

★ Truce between Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks.

★ Construction of the large Iron Pagoda in Kaifeng, China, is completed in this year during the Song Dynasty.

★ The approximate year of the establishment of Oslo, the capital of Norway, by king Harald Hardråde.

Births

Deaths

★ Eustace I of Boulogne

Heads of State

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

★ France — Henri I (reigned 1031–1060)