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William the Conqueror brings his wife, Matilda, over to England, where she is crowned queen at Westminster Abbey in a great Whitsuntide gathering of English nobility. Saxon nationalists in the north and west of England rise to challenge William the Conqueror and his Norman barons (see 1069).
Almohad forces take over the short-lived independent kingdom of Murcia on the Iberian Peninsula (see
China's sixth Song (Sung) dynasty emperor Shen Zong (Shen Tsung) ascends the throne at age 20 to begin a 17-year reign that will see radical reforms put through over bitter opposition from conservatives (see Wang An-Shi, 1069).
The Japanese emperor Goreizei dies at age 39 after a 23-year reign and is succeeded by his 35-year-old half brother Takahito, who will reign until 1072 as Gosanjō. Goreizei had married a daughter of the long-time regent Yorimichi Fujiwara, but she has not borne a child and has thus frustrated her father's ambition to be the grandfather of an emperor. As the first emperor in centuries not born of a Fujiwara woman, Gosanjō will rule in his own right rather than allowing the Fujiwaras to run the country, making efforts to reform court ceremonies and expenditures, establishing a records office (kirokujo) to examine the legal titles to great estates, and confiscating estates whose imperial status cannot be verified, but the Fujiwara clan will ignore most of the new emperor's directives and few of his reform measures will succeed.
