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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ June 3 — First Crusade: end of the siege of Antioch.

★ December 12 — massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan where Crusaders resort to cannibalism.

★ King Magnus III of Norway (Magnus Barefoot) conquers the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man

★ Cîteaux Abbey founded.

Births

★ September 16 — Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic writer, and composer (d. 1179)

Deaths

★ Adhemar of Le Puy, papal legate

★ Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut

★ January 3 — Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester