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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ June 18 — Battle of Civitate — 3000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX

★ Good harvests in Europe

★ October 25, battle of St-Aubin (or Arques): duke William of Normandy routed an army from Ponthieu (see deaths).

Births

★ July 7 — Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)

★ St-Hugues — Bishop of Guenette (d. 1132)

★ Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124)

★ Vladimir Monomakh, Prince of Kiev (d. 1125)

★ Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona

★ Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona

Deaths

★ April 15 — Godwin, Earl of Wessex

★ October 25 — Count Enguerrand II of Ponthieu.