Hassan-i Sabbah seizes Alamut
A mountain fortress becomes the Assassins' capital
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The Ismaili preacher Hassan-i Sabbah took the fortress of Alamut in the Alborz mountains without a fight. From there the Nizaris, known in Europe as the Assassins, defied the Seljuks for a century and a half by killing their leaders, until the castle surrendered to Hulagu in 1256.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — 24 years earlier
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — 13 years earlier
- 1085 Alfonso VI takes Toledo — 5 years earlier
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — 2 years earlier
- 1095 Council of Clermont — 5 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — 23 years later
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — 23 years later
Africa
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — 20 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — 23 years later
- 1115 Aguda founds the Jin dynasty — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Omar Khayyam (aged 42)
- Henry IV (aged 40)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 37)
- Vsevolod I (aged 60)
- Shen Kuo (aged 59)
- Anselm of Canterbury (aged 57)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 40)
- Philip I (aged 38)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 34)
- William II Rufus (aged 34)