What happened oct 13th 1060?

Answer 1

1060

• May - The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
• October - The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
• The compilation of the New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
• Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
• Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
• Philip I of France begins his reign.
• Upon the death of Emund the Old, he is succeeded by his son-in-law Stenkil as King of Sweden.