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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Founding of Marrakech by the Almoravid dynasty

★ The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal.

★ Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict founded in Affligem, Belgium.

Births

★ Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)

Deaths

★ Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia

★ Bao Qingtian, Chinese magistrate and mayor of Kaifeng (born 999)