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★ May — The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.

★ October — The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enter in Taranto.

★ Compilation of the New Tang History (China) is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.

★ Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his ''Cha Lu'' (Record of Tea).

★ Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar and Spain plus 2000 Jews (approximate date).

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★ August 4 — King Henry I of France (b. 1008)

★ November 14 — Count Geoffrey II of Anjou

★ Gruoch, queen of Macbeth

★ ÇaÄŸrı Bey, Seljuk Turks' general and TuÄŸrul Bey Sarayı's brother, dies in Serahs

★ Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet

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