1070

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Events

Births

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Events

★ Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England.

★ Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.

★ Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completed Kutadgu Bilig.

★ Bergen, Norway is founded by the king Olav Kyrre. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.

★ Abu Bakr founds Marrakesh

★ Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi started the Xining Reforms (until 1085).

★ The Temple of Literature established in the capital of Vietnam.

★ Successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuk Turks across the Euphrates.

★ Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the ''Ben Cao Tu Jing'', a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.

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Deaths

★ Baldwin VI of Flanders (b. 1030)