1096

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Bernard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg.

★ In Ireland, the Diocese of Waterford is erected.

★ First documented teaching at the University of Oxford.

★ Beginning of the People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade

★ Vital I Michele is Doge of Venice.

★ Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca.

★ Phayao, now a province of Thailand, is founded as a kingdom.

★ Late April - A large band of Crusaders approaches Speyer and murders 11 Jews.

Births

★ Hugh of St. Victor, scholar

★ King Stephen of England (d. 1154)

Deaths

★ Eudocia Macrembolitissa, empress of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X (b. 1021)

★ William of St. Carilef, bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England

★ Walter the Penniless, a leader of the First Crusade

★ Most of the Jewish population of Speyer, Germany during the First Crusade