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AD 1095: The Council of Clermont was held in Clermont, France. On the meeting Pope Urban II called on all Christians to fight against Seljuk Turks and reclaim Jerusalem; whoever joined in the war would be absolved of all sins. The First Crusade began.

AD 1093: The city of Zagreb, nowadays the capital city of Croatia, was first mentioned in history when a Roman Catholic bishopric was established there.

AD 1091: 17 October - A tornado ravaged London, striking down over 600 houses. The first London Bridge built by William the Conqueror fell down. This was the first tornado recorded in British history. Historians estimate that the tornado had an intensity of T8 in Torro Scale, which means it had...

AD 1089: The Council of Melfi was hosted by Pope Urban II. The meeting declared simony (the buying and selling of positions in church) an ecclesiastical crime and decided to repair relationship between the Roman Church and the Greek Church.

AD 1087: William the Conqueror died weeks after getting injured at a battle in Mantes (nowadays France near Paris).

Against because it is a trivial and superficial condemnation. We can't condemn a nation soly based on "oooo I think it's evil domestically, though not too evil, and probably common in plenty of other countries, idk your mileage may vary".

AD 1085: After 19 years of writing, Sīmǎ Guāng and his academic friends finished Zīzhì Tōngjiàn: Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government (資治通鑑) at 294 volumes and over 3 million words. It is considered the greatest history book in ancient China after Sīmǎ Qiān's Records of the Grand Historian...

AD 1083: The first King of Hungary, István I, was canonized.

AD 1081: The Battle of Língzhōu - Sòng Dynasty deployed five armies (over 300 thousand men) in an attempt to crush Western Xià, with Emperor Shénzōng himself as chief commander. The armies were stopped at Língzhōu (nowadays Níngxià Huí Autonomous Region) and sieged the city for 18 days. It...

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The history must move on! AD 1079: St. Stanislaus of Kraków was accused of treason and executed by order of King Bolesław II. This raised enormous opposition within Poland and in the end the king was forced to flee to Hungary. St. Stanislaus was later canonized and became the patron saint of...

AD 1077: 25th January - After being excommunicated by Gregory VII and threatened by other lords in Germany (because they still believed the Pope was legitimate), Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire trekked to Canossa Castle (in modern Italy) to beg for the Pope's forgiveness. The Pope did not let...

AD 1075: In Vietnam, Lý Dynasty established the imperial examinations (or court exam) system.

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