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Events
Births
Deaths
Heads of states

Events



Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover. He returns the following year.

Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.

May 19Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.

William of Normandy fights for his life and crown in Normandy.

Births



Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England 1066 after the Battle of Hastings

Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths



January 22Aelfric Puttoc, archbishop of York

Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing

Heads of states



Holy SeeLeo IX pope (1049–1054)

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