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1066

January 6 King Harald of England crowned
February 28 Westminster Abbey opens
March 23 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
September 21 Battle at Fulford: Norway king Harald III Hardrada beats British militia
September 25 Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway
September 28 William the Conqueror troops sail to England
September 29 William the Conqueror invade England
October 14 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
December 25 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England

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1065

Independence of the kingdom of Galicia and Portugal under the rule of Garcia

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1064


Harold II was shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.

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1063

- Anselm of Canterbury becomes prior at Le Bec
- Sancho I becomes ruler of Aragon
- Bishopric of Olomouc is founded

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1062

Founding of Marrakech
The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal

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1061

- Pope Alexander II succeeds Pope Nicholas II as the 154th pope.

- Normans conquer Messina in Sicily.

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1060

King Henry I of France dies

The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto in May
then the Byzantine Army turns around and defeats the Normans in October and enter Taranto

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1059

Anselm of Canterbury settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.

The College of Cardinals become the sole voters in the election of popes.

Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.

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1058

March 17 - King Lulach of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, who later becomes King as Máel Coluim III.

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1057

William the Conquerer defeats a Franco-Angevin army at the mouth of the Dives River, Normandy.