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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Northumbria divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire

★ Citeaux Abbey, the first Cistercian Monastery founded in Southern France

★ August 11, powerful earthquake recorded in Britain

★ Coronation of Rama Varma Kulasekhara in Kerala

★ Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II imposes slavery on the wives of priests

★ Palmyra destroyed by earthquake

★ Byzantine conquest of Crete

Births

★ Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1163)

Deaths

★ King Kalasa (Kalashan) of Kashmir

★ Saint John of Kiev

★ Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury