997 | Martyrdom of St Adalbert in Pomerania |
999-1003 | Pope Sylvester II ( Gerbert of Aurillac) |
1000 | King Olaf introduces Christianity to Sweden |
1002-18 | War between Henry II of Germany and Boleslav Chobry of Poland |
1007 | Henry founds the see of Bamberg |
1009 | Martyrdom of St Bruno of Querfurt |
1016 | Cnut of Denmark becomes king of England, in 1019 of Denmark too, and from 1029 to his death in 1035 also of Norway; first Normans in southern Italy |
1016-17 | Turkish raiders first reported in Armenia |
1024 | Boleslav Chobry becomes king of Poland |
1032-3 | Conrad II of Germany secures the kingdom of Burgundy after the death without heir of King Rudolf III |
c. 1036 | Foundation of monastery at Vallombrosa |
1037 | Constitutio de feudis |
1049 | Pope Leo IX condemns simony at the Councils of Rheims and Mainz |
1046-56 | Minority of Henry IV of Germany; considerable loss of crown lands |
1054 | Patriarch of Constantinople anathematizes Roman Church: the key date in the Schism between Orthodox and Catholic Churches |
1055 | Seljuks capture Baghdad |
c. 1056-75 | Patarene heretics in Milan |
1059-61 | Pope Nicholas II |
1059 | Election Decree on appointment of pope; Robert Guiscard becomes duke of Apulia and Calabria |
1061 | Roger I the 'Great Count' invades Sicily |
1066 | Harald Hardrada of Norway invades England and is defeated and killed at Stamford Bridge; Duke William of Normandy defeats King Harold of England at Hastings and gains the English crown |
1071 | First Saxon revolt against Henry IV; battle of Mantzikert: Byzantines defeated by Turks; Bari falls to Normans |
1073-85 | Pope Gregory VII |
1075 | Henry defeats the rebels at the battle of the Unstrut |
1076 | Henry and the German bishops withdraw their recognition from Pope Gregory VII at the Diet of |
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