Battle of Dandanaqan
Seljuk nomads rout the Ghaznavids and turn to Iran
The Oghuz led by Tughril Beg and Chaghri Beg defeated the army of the Ghaznavid sultan Mas'ud I. The victory gave the Seljuks Khorasan and opened the way to a Seljuk empire stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — 3 years earlier
Middle East
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — 15 years earlier
- 1054 East–West Schism — 14 years later
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 62)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 37)
- William the Conqueror (aged 12)
- Al-Biruni (aged 67)
- Henry I (aged 32)
- Henry III (aged 24)
- Iziaslav I (aged 16)
- Vsevolod I (aged 10)
- Shen Kuo (aged 9)
- Anselm of Canterbury (aged 7)