Battle of Hastings
The Normans remake England's elite and its language
Duke William of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II, who was killed in the battle. The Norman Conquest replaced the English elite, transformed the English language and bound England closely to continental Europe.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1054 East–West Schism — 12 years earlier
Africa
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — 4 years later
Asia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — 22 years earlier
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — 12 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Edward the Confessor (aged 63)
- William the Conqueror (aged 38)
- Omar Khayyam (aged 18)
- Henry IV (aged 16)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 13)
- Iziaslav I (aged 42)
- Vsevolod I (aged 36)
- Shen Kuo (aged 35)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 16)
- Philip I (aged 14)