1084

Events

Saint Bruno founds the Carthusian Order of monks.
Kyanzittha begins his reign in Myanmar.
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor crowned Emperor.
Rome is besieged by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and is then sacked by the Normans of Robert Guiscard, who intended to restore papal authority over the city.
Antioch is captured by the Seljuk Turks from the Byzantines.
Chancellor Sima Guang and a group of scholars of the Chinese Song Dynasty complete the compilation of the Zizhi Tongjian, an enormous written universal history of China in 294 volumes of 3 million written Chinese characters.