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Life in the 11th Century

Timeline: The Domesday Decade

1080
Alliance between Pope and the Normans in Sicily.
Building Starts on St. Sernin, Toulouse, a large pilgrim church.
Building in Romanesque style, starts on Lund Cathedral, Sweden.

1082
Alexios I grants Venice extraordinary commercial privileges for its help against the Normans.
Building starts on Fecamp Abbey.

1084
Henry VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.
Normans dissolve Rome
La Grand Chartreuse is founded by St. Bruno.
Salerno Cathedral built by Robert Guiscard.
Cloisters at the abbey of St. Domingo de Silos with the finest Romanesque sculpture in Spain.

1086
William I collects information for Domesday.
Almoravid invades Spain and defeats Alfonso of Castile.
Mi-Yuan, the Chinese painter, is born.

1088
Odo of Bayeux rebels unsuccessfully and is banished from England.
Bologna University founded.
Urban II becomes Pope.
Cluny Abbey is Rebuilt.

1090
Inge I becomes King of Sweden
Henry VI campaigns in Italy and defeats Pope.
Building starts on Zurich Cathedral.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux born.
Chinese build a water driven clock.

1081
El Cid is expelled from Castile.
Robert Griscard invades the Balkans.
Planning and building starts on St. Paul's cathedral in London, destroyed in the Great Fire of London, 1666.

1083
Alexios defeats the Normans at Larissa.
Ely Cathedral rebuilt.
St. Etienne in Nevers is built as a Cluniac Abbey.

1085
Building starts on Mainz Cathedral.
Robert Guiscard dies; Norman attacks on Byzantium cease.
Ssu-ma Kuang published chronological history of China.
Pope Gregory dies in Salerno.

1087
William I dies; William Rufus becomes king of England.
Nizam al-Mulk grants hereditary fiefdoms within the Caliphate.

1089
Henry IV marries the Princess of Kiev.
Pope Urban II takes Rome from Henry IV.
David the Restorer becomes King of verdana.
Pope Urban II makes re-conquest of Holy Land - The First Crusade.
Building starts on Gloucester Abbey.