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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Dragon龙 辰( at the beginning of the year fire - hare丁卯)

Syria: 1399/1400 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Odo of Chatillon is selected in Terracina to the Pope and took the name Urban II.
  • Bohemond I founded the Principality of Taranto.
  • Normans conquer the town of Castro Giovanni in Sicily.
  • First mention of Ravensburg, Rheda
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin besieged for four months without success Aledo.

Science and Technology

  • Establishment of the University of Bologna (first as law school) was the first university in Europe

Born

  • Piroska of Hungary, as Irene Orthodox saint, wife of the Byzantine. Emperor John II Komnenos († 1134 )

Died

  • January 06: Berengar of Tours, the dialectician Vorscholastik
  • April 07: Burchard II of Halberstadt, German clerics and politicians, Bishop of Halberstadt (c. 1028 )
  • November 24: Ekkehard II of Nellenburg, Abbot of Reichenau Island 1071-1088
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