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Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos
Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, defeats Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, the Turkish ruler of Anatolia in the battle
Election of Pope Gregory VII following the death of Pope Alexander II
The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.
Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
The Byzantine general Isaac Komnenos is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor in opposition to reigning emperor Michael VI Bringa
King Macbeth of Scotland is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of…
Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king
The Seljuks defeat the Ghaznavids in the battle of Dandanaqan
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of…
Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian…
The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid…
Election of Pope John XIX following the death of his brother Pope Benedict VIII
Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian…
Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian…