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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Creation of the Crab Nebula observed by a Chinese astronomer.

★ Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy.

★ Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany.

★ Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria.

★ The Yingxian Pagoda of Shanxi in northern China is built during the Liao Dynasty.

★ Muslims expel 300 Christians from Jerusalem and European Christians are forbidden to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Births

Deaths

★ August 31 — Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 981)

★ October 5 — Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)