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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 2 — Emperor Zhezong becomes emperor of Song Dynasty. Empress Dowager Gao cancells all the reforms packages and dismisses pro-reform Wang Anshi.

★ May 25 — Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors and invites French knights to settle the central plateau of Spain.

★ Domesday survey is commissioned by William I of England to ensure proper taxation and levies.

★ Katedralskolan, Lund, the oldest school in Scandinavia is founded.

★ Ísleifur Gissurarson is made the first bishop of Iceland.

★ By this year, the annual output of copper currency for the Chinese Song Dynasty reaches 6 billion coins a year, prompting the Chinese government to adopt the world's first paper-printed money later in the 1120s.

Births

★ Alberich of Reims (d. 1141)

★ Raoul I, Count of Vermandois (d. October 14,1152)

★ Robert fitz Martin (d. 1159)

★ Zhang Zeduan, Chinese painter (d. 1145)

Deaths

★ April 1 — Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)

★ May 25 — Pope Gregory VII

★ July 15 — Robert Guiscard

★ Cheng Hao (b. 1032) Song Dynasty China Neo-Confucian philosopher