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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Granada captured by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravids

★ Beginnings of troubadours in Provence

★ Bejaia becomes the capital of the Hammadid dynasty in Algeria

★ Song Dynasty Chinese author Qin Guan wrote the ''Can Shu'' (Book of Sericulture), which described a silk-reeling machine that had the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

Births

★ William of Malmesbury

★ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

★ Saint Famianus

★ Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz

★ Qin Kuai, Chinese Song Dynasty Prime Minister (d. 1155)

Deaths

★ Saint Malcoldia of Asti

★ Saint Adalbero