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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 )
- September 28: Hermann of Salm, German anti-king (* 1035 )
- November 24: Ekkehard II of Nellenburg, Abbot of Reichenau Island 1071-1088
- William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman aristocrat (* 1030)
- Nasser Khosrow, Persian traveler, theologian, poet and philosopher (* 1003)
- Meinhard of Bamberg, Bamberg Domscholaster and Bishop of Würzburg
- An-Nasir ibn Alumnas, ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Sufi poets of the Persian language (* 1006)