Events
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Saint Bruno founds the
Carthusian Order of monks.
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Kyanzittha begins his reign in
Myanmar.
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Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor crowned
Emperor.
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Rome is besieged by the
Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and is then sacked by the
Normans of
Robert Guiscard, who intended to restore
papal authority over the city.
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Antioch is captured by the Seljuk Turks from the Byzantines.
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Sima Guang and a group of scholars of the Chinese
Song Dynasty complete the compilation of the ''
Zizhi Tongjian'', an enormous written
universal history of
China in 294 volumes of 3 million written
Chinese characters.
Births
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David I of
Scotland
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Li Qingzhao, female Chinese poet (d.
1151)
Deaths
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