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Europe

• March 17 - King Lulach of Scotland is killed in battle at Lumphanan against his cousin and rival Malcolm III who becomes "king of the Scots".
• September 20 - Empress Agnes de Poitou and King Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border zone in Burgenland.
• The 4-year-old Judith of Swabia, the youngest daughter of the late Emperor Henry III, is engaged to Prince Solomon of Hungary at Regensburg.
• Norman conquest of southern Italy: Norman forces under Richard Drengot besiege and capture Capua. He takes the princely title from Prince Landulf VIII.
• Bolesław II, the eldest son of Casimir I, succeeds his father after his death in Poznań. He becomes duke of Poland.

  Africa

• The Almoravids conquer the Berghouata, a group of Berber tribes, who have establish an independent state in modern-day Morocco.

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Religion

• Spring - Pope Stephen IX pronounces on the authenticity of the relics of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, making it a major centre of pilgrimage.
• March 29 - Stephen IX dies of a severe illness after a pontificate of 7-month at Florence. He is succeeded by Nicholas II who will be installed the following year.
• November 6 - Emperor Isaac I deposes Michael I, patriarch of Constantinople, and have him exiled to Prokonnessos.
• Ealdred, archbishop of York, becomes the first English bishop to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.