Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (modern Durrës, Albania)
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (mo
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (modern Durrës, Albania)
Events Before
The first Parliament of Friuli is created
The first Parliament of Friuli is created
Persian polymath Omar Khayyam completes the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a precise 33-year intercalation cycle
Persian polymath Omar Khayyam completes the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a precise 33-year intercalation cycle and the basis for the Persian calendar still in use today
Iran adopts the Solar Hijri calendar
The Jalali calendar, also referred to as Malikshahi and Maliki, is a solar calendar compiled during the reign of Jalaluddin Malik-Shah I, the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire (1072–1092 CE), by the order...
Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland
Stanislaus of Szczepanów (Polish: Stanisław ze Szczepanowa; 26 July 1030 – 11 April 1079) was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Kraków and was martyred by the Polish King Bolesław II...
Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clement III
Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clement III
Events After
Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia defeats Leopold II, Margrave of Austria
Leopold II (1050 – 12 October 1095), known as Leopold the Fair (German: Luitpold der Schöne), a member of the House of Babenberg, was Margrave of Austria from 1075 until his death in 1095.
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated
Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead or Cap de estopes (1053 or 1054 – December 5, 1082) was Count of Barcelona from 1076 until his death.
Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
Alfonso VI of León and Castile captures the Muslim taifa of Toledo
Alfonso VI of León and Castile captures the Muslim taifa of Toledo
San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated
San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated
More from the 1080s
Results of the Domesday inquiry are presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Gre
Results of the Domesday inquiry are presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)
Odo of Lagery is elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III
Pope Urban II (Latin: Urbanus II; c. 1035 – 29 July 1099), otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088...
Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor
Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118.
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