1077

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

Eduard Schwoiser „Heinrich vor Canossa“ (1862) - Henry IV, Canossa

• January 26 — Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor visits Pope Gregory VII as a penitent, asking him remove sentence of excommunication.
• January 28 — Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• April 3 — The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
• Robert Curthose instigates his first insurrection against his father, William the Conqueror.
• The kingdom of Duklja is founded.
• The Bayeux Tapestry is made.
• The first recorded Trial by combat is held in England.
• The first English Cluniac Benedictine priory is established.
• Paul of Caen is installed as Abbot of St Albans; the building of St Albans Abbey Church commences.
• The independent state of Friuli is founded in modern Italy.
• Vsevolod of Kiev becomes the prince of Kievan Rus'.

[edit] Asia

• Dionysius V Lazaros becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
• The Seljuk Turks capture Nicaea.
• The Seljuk Turks capture Jerusalem and kill 3,000 citizens.
• Suleyman I of Rûm becomes the leader of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm in modern Turkey.
• Anush Tigin Gharchai becomes leader of the Khwarezmid Empire in modern Turkey.

[edit] Africa

• Pope Christodolos of Alexandria ends his reign as Coptic Pope.
• The Almoravids complete the conquest of the Ghana Empire, and reach Spain.

[edit] Births

• Joseph ibn Migash, rabbi (died 1141)

[edit] Deaths

• April 25 — Geza I of Hungary
• Agnes de Poitou, wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor and regent (b. 1020)
• King Anawrahta of Myanmar (b. 1044)
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, Persian historian and author (b. 995)
• Shao Yong (b. 1011) — Song Dynasty China philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian
• Zhang Zai (b. 1020) — Song Dynasty China Neo-Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist