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1070
Events
Hereward the Wake
begins a
Saxon
revolt in the Fens of eastern
England
, which later collapses.
Lanfranc
, an
Italian
lawyer
, becomes
William's
formidable
Archbishop of Canterbury
.
Central
Asian
poet
Yusuf Balasagun
completes the
Kutadgu Bilig
.
Bergen, Norway
is founded by the king
Olav Kyrre
. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by
Oslo
in 1314.
Abu Bakr Ibn-Umar founds
Marrakesh
.
Chinese Chancellor
Wang Anshi
starts the Xining Reforms (which last until
1085
).
The
Temple of Literature
is established in the capital of
Vietnam
.
A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the
Seljuk Turks
across the
Euphrates
.
Song Dynasty Chinese
astronomer, engineer, and statesman
Su Song
completes the compilation of the
Ben Cao Tu Jing
, a
pharmaceutical
treatise with related subjects of
botany
,
zoology
,
mineralogy
, and
metallurgy
.
Births
*
Deaths
Baldwin VI of Flanders
(b.
1030
)
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