CHRONOLOGY. 



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KngUod by William the Bastard, duke of Nor- 1 1 00. 



mandv, in the battle of Hasting*, Oct. 14. 1107. 



!<..>. The l)anr land ill England, Sept. 11. 1108. 



'. The feudal law uitroduod inro England. 1109. 



!("!. The Turks tinder Romanu", and 



lake him pmonrr. A comet appeared for 25 



dayt, and moved from south to east. 1110. 



107'-'. Sicily taken possession of by Roger. Sirnaraes 



used in England about thii time. 



1073. Msrianuj Scotui, ob. 1086. 



1074. Thr king of Bohemia obliged to pay a tribute to 1111. 



the Holy See. 1113. 



1075. Henry IV. defeats the Saxouj at Neuitadt, in 1114. 



Thuringia, June 9. 1 1 15. 



1076. Quarrel between Henry IV. and the pope. An 1117. 



earthquake in England. Asia Minor subdued 



by Solyman in 1074, now called Turkey. 1118. 



1077. The emperor goes barefooted to the pope. 1 1 19. 

 1 07!. Persian year reformed. A vicenna observes the ver. 



nal equinox, March 14, P. M. 2" 9*. Arzachel, 1120. 



the Spanish astronomer. 

 1060. Domesday-book begins to be compiled, and was 1121. 



completed in 1086. 1122. 



1081. Rome besieged by Henry. William of Spires, 1125. 



the mathematician. 

 1083. Rome taken by Henry, June 2. 1 127. 



1085. Toledo wrested from the Saracens. 



1086. Bruno founds the order of Carthusians. 1 130. 



1087. An expedition of the Christians against the Sara- 1132. 



cens in Africa. France ravaged by William 



the Conqueror. Suidas, author of the Greek 1135. 



Lexicon. 



1088. Alphonso VI. wrests the northern part of Por- 



tugal from the Saracens. 1 136. 



1089. Rosalinus of Compiegne, the head of the sect of 1137. 



Nominalists. 1138. 



1090. The dynasty of Assassins begins in Irak, and con- 



tinues 117 years. 1139. 



1091. Joseph, king of Morocco, obtains possession of 



the dominions of the Saracens in that kingdom. 



1092. Peter, sirnamed the Hermit. 1140. 



1093. Conrad rebels against the Emperor Henry, his 



father. 



1094. Sweden conquered by Margaret, and annexed to 



Denmark. 1141. 



1095. Sigebert, the historian, ob. 1113. 



1096. The first crusade into Palestine. A comet ap- 



peared. Naples and Sicily taken by the em- 1143. 

 peror. 1144. 



1097. Nicsea taken by Godfrey of Boulogne. The Sa- 1146. 



racens defeated by the Christians. A comet ap- 

 peared during the first eight days of October. 



1098. Antioch taken by Godfrey. Order of St Bene- 1147- 



diet instituted. 



1099. Jerusalem taken by the crusaders, July 15. God- 1148. 



frey elected king of Jerusalem. Knights of St 

 John instituted. Godfrey gains the battle of 

 Ascalon. 1149. 



1100. An earthquake in Sicily. William Rufus diet. 



TWELFTH CENTURY. . . 



1101. A comet appeared in February. 



1102. The Saracens defeated near Joppa by Baldwin. 115). 



William, duke of Aquitaine, goes to Palestine 1158. 

 with a great army. A comet appeared during 1153. 

 the fifteen last days of October. 



1103. Ma*scre of William's arm) at Constantinople. 1154. 



1 104. Baldwin defeats the Saracens, and take* Plot-mail. 



1 105. Normandy invaded by Henry, king of England. 





A large comet appeared. 



A comet appeared for forty days. 



Hungary rescued from German servitude. 



Joseph, king of Morocco, defeats the Spaniards 

 in the battle of the seven counts near Badajos. 

 Tripoli taken by the crusader*. 



Learning revived at Cambridge. Paper made of 

 cotton commonly used for writing. A comet 

 appeared from June 6th till December, with its 

 tail turned to the south. 



A comet appeared for a long time. 



War between France and England begin*. 



Peter Abelard, ob. 1 143, art. 63. 



A large comet appeared. 



An earthquake in Lombardy. Anna Comnena, 

 the historian. 



The order of Knights Templars instituted. 



Turks defeated at Antioch by Baldwin. Bohe- 

 mia formed into a kingdom. 



Prince William, with a number of English lords, 

 drowned in the English channel. 



The order of Premontre instituted. 



The Scythians defeated by John Comnenus. 



The Saracens overcome by Baldwin near Antioch. 

 Germany afflicted with the plague. 



The pope makes war upon Roger, duke of Sicily, 

 who is proclaimed king in the year 1130. 



Athelard, monk of Bath, the mathematician. 



The Cistertian monks exempted from tythes. St 

 Bernard, ob. 1153. 



Beneventum, Capua, Sec. taken by Roger, king 

 of Sicily, from the pope. A comet appears on 

 the 8th October. 



Averroes of Corduba, ob. 1206. 



The pandect of Justinian found in Amalfi. 



England invaded by the Scots, who are defeated. 

 A comet appears in China. 



A civil war in England. Alphonso, after defeat- 

 ing five Saracen kings, and taking Lisbon, is 

 proclaimed king of Portugal. 



King Stephen taken prisoner at Lincoln, Feb. 2. 

 The doctrine of Abelard condemned. The ca- 

 non law brought into England. William of 

 Malmesbury, the historian. 



Stephen begins to recover his kingdom. The 

 dissensions between the Guelphs and Gibelinet 

 prevail. Peter Lombard, ob. 1 16t. 



The Alkoran translated into Latin. 



The primacy of the church of Toledo confirmed. 



The dynasty of the Almoravides in Africa and 

 Spain succeeded by that of the Almohedes. 

 The Empress Matilda leaves England, 



The second crusade into the Holy Land by the 

 preaching of St Bernard. 



Damascus unsuccessfully besieged by the Chris- 

 tians. Conrad and Louis arrive at Jerusalem. 

 Humenus, the Egyptian astronomer. 



Henry of Anjou asserts his claim to the crow 

 of England. Greece ravaged by Roger VI. 

 of Sicily. 



The civil law revived at Bologna by Werncrus, 

 who died in 1190. 



The canon law composed by Gratian. 



Geoffrey of Monmouth. 



Treaty of Winchester, by which Stephen grant* 

 to Henry the reversion of his kin^ 



Damascus taken by Nouradin. Christianity in- 

 troduced into Finland, Al Edrisius, the Ara- 

 bian geographer. 





