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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 17 — King Lulach of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, who later becomes King as Máel Coluim III.

★ Antipope Benedict X is crowned pope, later deposed.

★ Pope Nicholas II is elected pope in December, crowned in following year.

★ Battle of Varaville

★ Boleslaus II takes office as duke of Poland.

★ Construction begins on Cathedral of Parma, Italy.

★ Aldred becomes the first English bishop to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

★ The Almoravids conquer the Berghouata

Births

★ Al-Ghazali

Deaths

★ March 17 — King Lulach of Scotland

★ March 29 — Pope Stephen IX

★ Casimir I of Poland (b. 1015)

★ Saint Alfwold