Re: Event of the Year
 

1096

First documented teaching at the University of Oxford

England

Re: Event of the Year
 

1095

November 28 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1094

El Cid completes his conquest of Valencia, Spain, and begins his rule of Valencia.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1093

Construction of Carlisle Castle, England was beginning.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1092

Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying two days before it was to be consecrated on May 9 of that year. About fifty years later, most of that building was destroyed in a fire.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1091

The Pechenegs besiege Constantinople but are defeated so decisively by Emperor Alexius I that they fade into oblivion.

Re: Event of the Year
 

1090

Granada captured by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravides

Re: Event of the Year
 

1089

Northumbria divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire

Re: Event of the Year
 

1088


Oldest University founded- University of Bologna

Re: Event of the Year
 

1087

* May 9 - The remains of Saint Nicholas were brought to Bari, Italy.
* May 9 - Pope Victor III formally accepts elevation to the papacy.
* September 9 - William II becomes king of England