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Heads of State

Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Syria: 1354/55 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• September 28: The Norwegian- Danish king Magnus I. defeated his troops in the heath at Lürschau a several thousand -strong army of turning.

• Henry III. married Agnes of Poitou in Ingelheim.
• Normans defeat the Arabs in Puglia.
• Agnes of Poitou is crowned in the Cathedral of Mainz to German queen.
• First mention of Elsau, Copenhagen and Hasselfelde.
• Last attack fleet of Kievan Rus to Konstantin Opel, which ends unsuccessfully.

Economy

• Beginning of the first economic boom in the city of Bremen under Archbishop Adalbert.

Religion

• Michael I. Keroularios is Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.

Disasters

• In Europe there is a great famine.

Born

• Fulk IV, called the Wrangler or the curmudgeon, Count of Anjou and Tours
• Knut IV, King of Denmark

• To 1043: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( " El Cid " ), Spanish National Hero ( † 1099 )
• To 1043: Władysław I Herman, Duke of Poland from the Piast dynasty

Died

• JANUARY 30: Amnichad of Fulda, German Benedictine monk (* unknown)
• February 15: Gisela of Swabia, wife of Conrad II, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (* 989)
• April 15: Adalbrand of Bremen, Archbishop of Bremen -Hamburg and politicians

• Domenico Flabanico, Doge of Venice since 1032
• George Maniakes, general and anti-emperor of the Byzantine Empire
• Ratibor, prince of the tribe of the abodritischen part Polabs

• To 1043: St. Hallvard, the patron saint of Oslo (* 1020)