1081

Events

• May 8 — Alfonso VI of Castile marries Constance of Burgundy.
• Corfu is taken from the Byzantine Empire by Robert Guiscard, Norman King of Southern Italy.
• Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III is overthrown by Alexius I Comnenus, ending the Middle Byzantine period and beginning the Comnenan dynasty.
• October 18 - Alexius I helps defend Albania from the Normans (the first recorded mention of Albania), but is defeated at the Battle of Dyrrhachium (Durazzo).
• Construction begins on Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense.

Births

• December 1 — King Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• probable
• Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (d. 1151)

Deaths

• September 1 — Bishop Eusebius of Angers
• Bolesław II the Bold, King of Poland
• Nicephorus III, Byzantine Emperor
• Trahaearn ap Caradog, King of Gwynedd