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Anselm of Canterbury settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.

★ The Lateran Council makes the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the election of popes.

★ Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan, becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.

Isaac I Comnenus resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his successor.

January 24Pope Nicholas II succeeds Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope, installed in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.

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Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler of the First Crusade

Deaths



Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople

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