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AD 1042: April 19 – Emperor Michael V Kalaphates banishes his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë, for plotting to poison him, to the island of Principo. His announcement as sole emperor leads to a popular revolt.
 
AD 1044: July 6 – Battle of Ménfő: German troops under King Henry III ("the Black") defeat the Hungarian army, led by King Samuel Aba, who flees the field but is captured and killed. Peter Orseolo ("the Venetian") becomes (for the second time) king of Hungary, and a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.
 
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AD 1043: The Qingli Reforms were put forth by Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan.
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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 away from the capital city. However, the arguments between Fan Zhongyan and people who opposed his plans established a tradition of free debate and it influenced Song Dynasty's politics deeply.
 
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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 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 1949; with a full 900-year lifespan, it was the charitable organization with the longest history in China. At its peak it controled over 1,300 hectares of farm land. In 1949 Fan's heirs transformed the foundation into a school and it operates till today.
 
AD 1051: Hilarion of Kiev became the first native metropolitan (head of an ecclesiastical province in the Eastern Orthodox Church) of Kievan Rus.
 
AD 1052: Summer – Godwin, Earl of Wessex, sails with a large fleet up the Thames to London, forcing King Edward the Confessor to reinstate him into his previous position of power.
 
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.
 
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AD 1054: July 4 (approx.) – SN 1054, a supernova, is first observed by the Chinese, Arabs and possibly Native Americans, near the star Zeta Tauri.[3] For 23 days it remains bright enough to be seen in daylight. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula (NGC 1952).
 
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