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AD 1071: The Battle of Manzikert: more than one hundred thousand men of the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks fought against each other in a decisive battle. With the defeat of Byzantine army, the Byzantine Empire lost all its territories in Turkey and Armenia. Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV...

AD 1067: In a civil war, Halsten Stenkilsson killed all his contenders and became the new King of Sweden, maintaining the status of Christianity in Sweden.

AD 1065: A stupid political crisis broke out in Song Dynasty. Emperor Renzong of Song did not bear child. Because of this, he ordered in 1062 that the son of his trusted brother Zhao Yunrang would become next emperor after he died. In AD 1064 Zhao Zong claimed the throne and became Emperor...

AD 1063: Béla I died accidentally when his throne's canopy fell onto his head. His nephew Salamon succeeded him as the King of Hungary.

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AD 1061: Robert "Guiscard" began his invasion of Sicily and conquered Messina in this year.

AD 1059: 15th February - Total solar eclipse. Government ministers in China blamed this astronomical event on Emperor (Renzong of Song Dynasty)'s incompetence and forced him to reform his court rules, meaning that ministers got more freedom of speech at the court.

AD 1057: Isaac I Komnenos became Byzantine Emperor.

AD 1055: Song Dynasty set up a national standard examination for medical science. Exams were held every three years, in which students were faced with 10 real cases and they need to answer why the patients were sick, were there similar cases recorded in historical medical books, how to treat...

AD 1053: Ouyang Xiu finished writing The New History of the Five Dynasties. It was the only history book in China that wasn't written under the supervision of the imperial court but still recognized as an "official" record of the history.

AD 1051: Hilarion of Kiev became the first native metropolitan (head of an ecclesiastical province in the Eastern Orthodox Church) of Kievan Rus.

AD 1049: In the last years of his life, Fan Zhongyan established the Fan Family's Charitable Foundation (范氏義莊) to help with poor people in his hometown Suzhou (in Jiangsu Province). This was China's first non-religious charitable organization. Astonishingly, it had continued to function UNTIL...

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AD 1047: Rebel Byzantine general Leo Tronikios proclaimed himself emperor and besieged Constantinople. However after initial setbacks his troops abandoned him and he was finally captured by the legitimate Byzantine army.

AD 1045: The Qingli Reforms failed. By October, all its new policies were cancelled except the rebuilding of Taixue (imperial college). Yan Shu and Du Yan, two chancellors (prime ministers) who supported the reforms, were deposed. Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan became petty officials working far...