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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The Romanesque church begun at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

★ Anselm of Canterbury becomes abbot of the Abbey of Bec

★ Battle of Kalaura

★ Approximate founding date of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

★ By this year, the iron industry in Song Dynasty China was producing a total weight of 127000000 kg (125,000 t) of iron product per year.

Births

★ Alexander I, king of Scotland (d. 1124)

Deaths

★ 11 November — Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier, dies besieging Tübingen

★ Rhys ab Owain, king of Deheubarth, Wales