1000s -
976-1025 Basil II1000 Leif Ericson in "Vinland"
1002 On St. Brice's Day, by order of King AEthelraed, Danes are massacred around Britain. |
1010s -
976-1025 Basil II1012 Berber revolution at Cordova
1013 King AEthelraed flees to Normandy after def to Canute
1014 Brian Boruma
defeats Norse at Clontarf
1016-35 Canute King of England, |
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1080s
1078-81 Nicephorus III
1081-1118 Alexius I1080 2nd excommunication of Henry IV
1084 Anti-Pope Clemens III crowns Henry IV H.R. Emperor
1085 English Domesday Book (tax rolls)
1085 Sack of Rome by Robert Guiscard |
1090s
1081-1118 Alexius I1090 "Assassin"
sect founded
1095 1st Crusade
proclaimed by Pope Urban II after
appeal by Alexius
1096 hermit Peter of Amiens incites "crusaders" to kill German Jews and leads
peasant army until it encounters Turks in Anatolia, where it is destroyed.
1098 Fatimids take Jerusalem
1099 Jerusalem conquered by Crusaders, defending Jews herded into temple and burned alive. |