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The Treaty of Caen ends hostilities between England's William II and his brother, Normandy's Robert Curthose.
Muslim control of Sicily ends in February after 130 years. Noto yields to Roger Guiscard, and the count completes his conquest.
Almeria and Seville fall to the Berber army of the Almoravid sultan Yusuf ibn Tashufin (see 1090). The Abbasid vizier of Seville, Muhammad al-Mutamid, now 64, has gone in person to ask for Tashufin's help in resisting the Christian forces of León and Castile's Alfonso VI, but the sultan has laid siege to the city, Almoravid sympathizers betray al-Mutamid, the city falls after an heroic defense, and al-Mutamid is deposed. Tashufin sends him as a prisoner to Morocco, where he will be confined until his death in 1095 (see Murcia, 1092).
A gale knocks down London Bridge, forcing carts and pedestrians to cross the Thames by boat (see 1014; 1136).
The 33-year-old Persian theologian Abu Hamid Ghazali begins lecturing at a school founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who has gained renown for his treatise "The Book of Government; or Rules for Kings" ("Seyasat-nameh").
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