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  • "January 4-Edward the Confessor dies. The Witan proclaims Harold Godwinson King.

  • January 5-Harold II is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

  • March 20 - Halley's Comet reaches perihelion, it is subsequently recorded in the Bayeux Tapestry.

  • September 20-Battle of Fulford: King Harald III of Norway (Harald Hardrada) defeats the northern English earls Edwin and Morcar.

  • September 25-Battle of Stamford Bridge: King Harold II of England defeats the Vikings under Harald Hardrada.

  • September 28-Duke William of Normandy, lands in England at Pevensey.

  • October 14-Battle of Hastings, fought between King Harold II of England and Duke William of Normandy: Harold is killed and William is victorious. In England this is the traditional end of the Dark Ages and the start of the Middle Ages.

  • December 25-Duke William of Normandy, is crowned King William I of England.

  • Magnus II is crowned King of Norway.

  • The first black Africans in modern-day Gambia convert to Islam.

  • December 30 - Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifiesJewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.

  • Shen Kuo receives a post in the capital China.

  • Hedeby is destroyed by a Slavic army and permanently abandoned.

  • Sima Guang completes the compilation of a large dictionary, an important work of Chineselexicography."

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