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Events

By place

Europe

• March 31 – Emperor Henry IV besieges Rome and enters the city. He is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Antipope Clement III in Rome and receives the patrician authority.
• May – Sack of Rome: Duke Robert Guiscard leads a Norman army (36,000 men) north and enters Rome; the city is sacked, and Henry IV is forced to retreat.
• Robert Guiscard returns with 150 warships in Illyria (modern Albania), and occupies Corfu and Kefalonia with the support of Ragusa and the Dalmatian city-states.
• King Halsten Stenkilsson is killed and his brother Inge the Elder is deposed in Svealand (modern Sweden). Inge is replaced by his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn.

Seljuk Empire

• The Seljuk Turks under Sultan Malik-Shah I conquer Byzantine Antioch, held by Philaretos Brachamios, an Armenian general, who seizes power as a usurper.

Asia

• Sima Guang, Chinese chancellor and historian, with a group of scholars, completes the Zizhi Tongjian, a chronicle of universal history of China.
• April 21 – King Kyansittha begins his reign as ruler of the Pagan Kingdom in Burma (modern Myanmar).

By topic

Religion

• Pope Gregory VII, who has been forced by the presence in Rome of Henry IV to retreat to the Castel Sant'Angelo, is freed by Robert Guiscard and restores papal authority in Rome.
• Bruno of Cologne founds the Carthusian Order which includes both monks and nuns. He builds a hermitage in the French Alps.
• Building work starts on Worcester Cathedral in England, orchestrated by Bishop Wulfstan.

Births

• August 1 – Heonjong, Korean king of Goryeo (d. 1097)
• Alan I (le Noir), viscount of Rohan (d. 1147)
• Ali ibn Yusuf, ruler of the Almoravids (d. 1143)
• Bahram-Shah, ruler of the Ghaznavids (d. 1157)
• Charles I (the Good), count of Flanders (d. 1127)
• David I, king of Scotland (approximate date)
• Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet and writer
• Rainier, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
• Rechungpa, Tibetan founder of the Kagyu school (d. 1161)
• Wang, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (d. 1108)

Deaths

• February 16 – Siegfried I, archbishop of Mainz
• June 28 – Ekkehard of Huysburg, German abbot
• October 10 – Gilla Pátraic, bishop of Dublin
• November 20 – Otto II, margrave of Montferrat
• Aghsartan I, Georgian king of Kakheti and Hereti
• Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 1057)
• Halsten Stenkilsson, king of Sweden (approximate date)
• Herfast (or Arfast), Norman Lord Chancellor
• Hoël II, duke of Brittany (House of Cornouaille)
• Saw Lu, king of the Pagan Kingdom (b. 1049)

References

References

1. "Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor".
2. (2000). "History of Burma". Asian Educational Services.
3. "Carthusian religious order".