Α NEW UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY. PERIOD XXVI. FROM MICHAEL V. TO MANUEL COMNENUS. [CENT. XI.] REMARKABLE FACTS, EVENTS, AND DISCOVERIES. A. D. 1002 The emperor Henry assumes the title of king of the Romans. 1014 Sueno the Dane becomes master of England, Sept. 28. 1022 A new species of music invented by Aretin. 1035 Togrul Beg, or Tangrolipix, the Turkish sultan, establishes himself in Khorasan. The kingdoms of Castile and Arragon begun. 1036 Canute the Great conquers England. 1040 The Danes, after several engagements with various success, driven out of Scotland. 1041 The Saxon line restored under Edward the Confessor. 1043 The Turks become formidable and take possession of Persia. The Russians come from Scythia and land in Thrace. 1054 Leo IX. the first pope that kept up an army. 1055 The Turks take Bagdad, and overturn the empire of the Saracens. 1057 Malcolm III., king of Scotland, kills the tyrant Macbeth at Dunsinnan, and marries princess Margaret, sister to Edgar Atheling. 1065 The Turks take Jerusalem from the Saracens. 1066 The conquest of England by William the bastard, duke of Normandy, in the battle of Hastings, where Harold was slain. 1070 The feudal law introduced into England. 1074 Asia Minor being now under the power of Solyman, is from this time called Turkey. 1075 Henry IV., emperor of Germany, and the pope, quarrel about the nomination of the German bishops. Henry, in penance, walks barefooted to the pope in the month of January. 1076 Justices of peace first appointed in England. 1080 Doomsday book begun to be compiled by order of William, from a survey of all the estates in England, and finished in 1086. William builds the Tower of London to curb his English subjects; many of whom fly to Scotland, where they introduce the English language, are protected by Malcolm, and receive lands. VOL. III. B |