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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Saint Bruno founds the Carthusian Order of monks.

★ Kyanzittha begins his reign in Myanmar.

★ Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor crowned Emperor.

★ 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.

★ Antioch is captured by the Seljuk Turks from the Byzantines.

★ Chancellor 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

★ David I of Scotland

★ Li Qingzhao, female Chinese poet (d. 1151)

Deaths

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