Alfonso VI takes Toledo
Christians recover the old Visigothic capital
After years of pressure, Alfonso VI of Castile and León took Toledo, one of the largest taifas. It was the first major city of al-Andalus to fall in the Reconquista, and the alarmed emirs called in the Almoravids from Africa.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1071 Battle of Manzikert — 14 years earlier
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — 14 years later
Africa
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — 15 years earlier
Alive at the time
- William the Conqueror (aged 57)
- Omar Khayyam (aged 37)
- Henry IV (aged 35)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 32)
- Vsevolod I (aged 55)
- Shen Kuo (aged 54)
- Anselm of Canterbury (aged 52)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 35)
- Philip I (aged 33)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 29)