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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...

AD 1041: The Movable Type Printing technique was invented by Bi Sheng. Similar to what Gutenberg would do 400 years later, Bi Sheng carved Chinese characters on the surface of clay blocks, then burned them in a kiln so that they became hard. Then these blocks would be arranged in a rectangular...

AD 1038: Li Yuanhao claimed the title of emperor and established the Western Xia Dynasty (it had existed as a kingdom for a long time, but only in 1038 did it go to the same level as Song and Khitan).

AD 1032: Odo II, Count of Blois, invaded Burgundy and occupied most of its lands. However, in the same year he was later repelled by army of Konrad II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

AD 1028: Canute became the King of Norway (while still being the King of Denmark and King of England), one year after defeating Olav II's invasion.

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Wow it's Sil Dorsett! :] AD 1025: Bolesław I died shortly after he was crowned as the first King of Poland.

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AD 1020: The Fengguo Temple was constructed by the Khitan Empire. With an immense area and seven statues of Buddahs at the height of more than nine meters integrated, it is considered the greatest Chinese architecture in 11th century.

AD 1018: Battle of Dyrrhachium - The First Bulgarian Empire was conquered by the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine ruler Basil II got the title Boulgaroktonos "slayer of Bulgarians" because of this.

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AD 1015: Vladimir I, the first Christian ruler of Kyivan Rus, died. His death led to a war of succession between his sons.

AD 1013: The history encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, or Cefu Yuangui (冊府元龜), was completed. It was the last one of the "Four Great Books of Song". With 1,000 juan (chapters) and a word count of more than 9.39 million, it was the largest encyclopedia at the time.

1010: The Second Goryeo-Khitan War — after a coup d'état in the Goryeo court killing King Mukjong (whom the Khitans had supported), the Khitan Empire invaded Goryeo and burned down its capital city Gaegyeong.

AD 1008: Murasaki Shikibu began writing her diary, known as The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記), in which she described the court life in Heian Japan in detail and the writing process of The Tale of Genji (源氏物語), the world's first novel. The diary itself is considered the prototype of "I novels"...

AD 1004: The Chanyuan Treaty was signed by the Song Dynasty and the Khitan Empire, ending the prolonged war in between them. According to the Treaty, the Song Dynasty was "a brotherly state" to the Khitan Empire, though the former must donate 100,000 liang-s of silver (one liang equals to about...