Events

• Northumbria divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire
• August 11, powerful earthquake recorded in Britain
• Coronation of Rama Varma Kulasekhara in Kerala
• Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II imposes slavery on the wives of priests
• Palmyra destroyed by earthquake
• Byzantine conquest of Crete

Births

Deaths

• King Kalasa (Kalashan) of Kashmir
• Saint John of Kiev
• Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury