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Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clement III

Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clement III

Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clement III

Events Before

  1. The first Parliament of Friuli is created

    The first Parliament of Friuli is created

  2. Bayeux Tapestry likely first goes on display to decorate the nave during the consecration of Notre-Dame of Bayeux Cathed

    Bayeux Tapestry likely first goes on display to decorate the nave during the consecration of Notre-Dame of Bayeux Cathedral in Bayeux, Normandy [1]

  3. 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

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

Events After

  1. Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor

    Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118.

  2. 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)

  3. Emperor Henry V is born

    Emperor Henry V is born

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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