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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ July 29 — Battle of Stiklestad in Norway. Olav Haraldsson loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle. He is later sainted — and he becomes the patron saint of Norway and Rex perpetuum Norvegiae ('the eternal king of Norway').

★ The city of Kaunas in Lithuania is founded.

★ The city of Tartu in Estonia is founded.

★ Earliest mention of Thalwil, Switzerland

★ Henry I of France revolts against his father Robert

Births

★ July 26 — Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)

★ Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (d. 1070)

★ Vsevolod I of Kiev (d. 1093)

Deaths

★ April 30 — Mahmud of Ghazni

★ July 19 — Adalberon, bishop of Laon

★ July 29 — King Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)

★ September 30 — William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)