1072

This page relates to the year 1072 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

  • Humay founds the dynasty Saifawa kings of Kanem to the Chad;
  • Querelle enters the patriarch of Alexandria Christodule and the vizier of the Cairo Badr Al-Djamali, about brimades inflicted by the bishop Abdoum with the Moslems of Ethiopia. Christodule decides to deposit this bishop that it did not indicate, but Badr Al-Djamali considers this measurement insufficient. Christodule thus sends in Ethiopia a new bishop, Sévère, which has as a main mission of facilitating the construction of the mosques;
  • the Hammadides transfer their capital to Bougie, which becomes one of the most important ports of the the Maghreb;
  • the Hammadide kingdom, saved by the born invasions hilalien and Almoravides, acquires a great prosperity.

India

  • the prince Châlukya Vikramaditya VI rebels against his/her brother Someshvara II and seizes the power, rejecting the domination Chola. It establishes its power on the center of the continent and proclaims emperor of the Karnataka;
  • Vikramaditya VI abolishes the era shaka and establishes the era Chalukya-vikrama. It establishes its capital with Kalyani.

The Middle East & Arab world

  • December 15th: Beginning of the reign of Malik Shah Ier, Sultan of the Seldjoukides (fine in 1092):
    • Alp-Arslan is killed at the time of a campaign against the Karakhanides. Mãlik-Shah, still minor, succeeds to him. It is not a military chief but primarily an administrator concerned about arrange the conquests.
  • In Iraq and Iran, the vizier Nizãm Al-Mulk fight against the Shiite by melting the Medersa S, schools teaching orthodoxy sunnite. These strictly orthodoxe schools contribute to solidify the Islamic culture.

Europe

  • January 10th: The Norman and their troops, directed by sea by Robert Guiscard, and ground by his/her brother Roger Bump, take Palermo with the Musulman S.

  • October 7th:
    • Sanche the Fort, which wanted to reconstitute the kingdom of his/her father while fighting against his brothers, dies assassinated;
    • Rodrigo Diaz from Bivar, known as Cid, (born with Burgos in 1040), which served it, on the side of his/her enemy brother Alphonse VI who gives him his cousin, Jimena Diaz passes, in marriage, and sends it to collect the “ bet ”, tributes which had by the Moslem kingdoms.
    • Alphonse VI Valiant the becomes king of Castille and León (fine in 1109).

  • Philippe Ier, king of France, recognizes as count of Flanders Robert the Clippings which are not regarded any more as vassal of king de France.
  • Reform of the Church Anglican by Lanfranc, which is named primacy of England (fine in 1089). It abolishes the worship of many saints, and replaces many places of worship. The hierarchy of the Church is almost completely recomposed the Norman ones or of French (an English on 16 bishops in 1100);
  • William the Conqueror invades the Scotland and forces its king, Malcolm III MacDuncan, to pay homage to him.
  • Saint Stanislas becomes bishop of Cracow.

Arts & culture

  • the Chinese painter Guo Xi carries out early Printemps , masterpiece of the monochromic landscape;
  • Promulgation of the Russian Justice (short drafting);
  • Canonization of Boris and Gleb to Vychgorod. It is preceded by the drafting of the Dit on the Martyrs .

Births in 1072

Death in 1072

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