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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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c. 1000 Discovery of Vinland
Oldest manuscript of Beowulf
1002 Death of Almansor
1013 Danish kings in England
1015-1087 Constantinus Africanus
1032 End of the Kingdom of Aries
1036 End of the Caliphate of Cordova
1036-1067 Baldwin V, Count of Flanders
1039-1056 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
1040 Death of Foulques Nerra, Count of Anjou
1057 End of Macedonian dynasty in the Byzantine Empire
1059 Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, as the Pope's vassal
1063-1118 Cathedral at Pisa built
1066 Norman conquest of England
1071 Battle of Manzikert
1073-1085 Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand)
1078 Jerusalem captured by the Turks
1079-1142 Abelard
1081-1118 Reign of Alexius Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor
1085 Toledo captured by Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon
1086 Battle of Zalaca
1086-1127 William X, Duke of Aquitaine, first known troubadour
1095 Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade
Foundation of Portugal
1099 Jerusalem stormed by the crusaders
1108-1137 Reign of Louis VI, the Fat, King of France
Roman law taught by Irnerius at Bologna
Questions about Nature of Adelard of Bath
1122 Concordat of Worms
1126-1198 Averroes
1137 Union of Aragon and Barcelona
1143 Lübeck founded
1144 Fall of Edessa
c. 1150 Decretum of Gratian; Sentences of Peter Lombard
1154 Henry II, King of England, founds the Plantagenet or Angevin dynasty with vast continental fiefs
End of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Geography of Edrisi
1163 Foundation-stone of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris laid by Pope Alexander III
1170 Murder of Thomas Becket
1171 Saladin overthrows the Fatimite dynasty in Egypt
1176 Battle of Legnano
1180-1223 Reign of Philip II, Augustus, King of France
1183 Peace of Constance
1187 Jerusalem captured by Saladin
1198-1216 Pope Innocent III
1204 Latin Empire of Constantinople established