After Christ.] 
91,9 Pllocas, having railed a feditlon at Conftantinople, is 
killed by Romanus, who is a (Turned into the empire, 
Dec. 24. He forces the emprefs Zoe into a monaftery. 
922 The battle of Placentia, in which Berenger is de¬ 
feated by Rodolph king of Burgundy. 
923 Fiefs begin to be eilablilhed in France, when they 
chofe Rodolph, king of Burgundy, for their king, 
about the beginning of July. 
925 Sigifrid, comte de Ringelheim, the firft marquis of 
Brandenburgh. 
926 Hugh, being made king of Italy, gives the kingdom 
of Arles to Rodolph II. 
932 Arnulph, duke of Bavaria, defeated at Verona by 
Hugh king of Italy. 
933 A froft of 120 days began in the end of this year. 
936 The Saracen empire is divided, by ufurpation, into 
feven kingdoms. 
937 Luitprand, the hi dorian ; died 970. 
939 Ramirus defeats the Saracens in Spain foon after the 
eclipfe of the fun, July 17. 
941 Turketul chancellor and Englilh minifter. 
942 The eaftern emperors take poiTeflion of the kingdom 
of Naples. 
945 Berenger pa&ions with Hugh for the reverfion of the 
kingdom of Italy. 
947 Alfarabius, the Arabian aftronomer, flourilhed at 
this time. 
952 AnlafF, Danilh king of Northumberland. 
955 Hugh, furnamed the White, gets the duchies of Bur¬ 
gundy and Aquitain from Lothaire. 
959 The power of the monks in England is very high. 
St. Dunftan, the Englifli minifter ; died 988. 
961 Nicephorus Pliocas recovers Candia from the Saracens. 
964 The kingdom of Italy conquered by Otho, and united 
to the German emperors. 
965 Hugh Capet duke of Paris, afterwards king of France. 
Geber the Arabian aftronomer. 
967 Antioch is recovered by Nicephorus from the Saracens. 
968 An eclipfe of the fun, December 22, obferved at Con- 
Itanuinople about ten o’clock, A. M. 
969 The race of Abbas lofe Egypt, it being feized by the 
Fatimides, who build Grand Cairo. 
971 Three hundred thoufand Bulgarians defeated, and 
their empire abolifhed, by Bardas. 
973 . Otho the Great died at Magdeburgh, May 7. 
975 Pope Boniface VII. is depofed, and banifhed for his 
crimes. Aziztis caliph of Egypt; died 996. 
976 Bardas, furnamed Sclerus, uiurps the eaftern empire 
for ten years, 
977 Otho II. defeats and fubdues the Bohemians. 
980 The two emperors of Conftantinople recover Apulia 
and Calabria. 
987 The third race of the French kings begins, July 3, in 
Hugh Capet. 
991 The figures in arithmetic are brought into Europe by 
the Saracens from Arabia. 
992 Olaus firft king of Norway. 
993 Conrade the Pacific, king of Arles and Burgundy, 
died, having reigned fifty-feven years. 
994 The kings of Denmark and Noiway invade England 
with a great army. 
996 Otho III. makes the empire of Germany eledlive. 
999 Boleflaus firft king of Poland. 
1001 Of the Julian period 5714. 
1002 A general maflacre of the Danes in England, on 
Sunday, November 13. Avicenna of Bochara, the 
Arabian phyfician; died 1050, aged So. 
1005 All the old churches are rebuilt, about this time, in 
a new manner of architefture. 
1006 A peftilence all over Europe, which lafts 3 years. 
1009 A civil war among the Saracens in Spain, which 
continues till 1091, when they become tributary to 
the Saracens of Africa. 
1OJ2 Brithric, Englifli admiral. 
1 013 The Danes, under Sueno, get pofleflion of England. 
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1014 A violent ftorm, September 28, which brought an 
inundation over Flanders. 
1016 Edmund II. furnamed Ironfide, fought fix battles 
in England with Canute II, king of Denmark, molt 
of which he loft by the treachery of Edrie. 
1018 The Normans firft enter Italy in a body. 
io2z A new fpecies of mufic introduced by Aretin the 
monk. 
1023 Rodolph, king of Burgundy, being expelled by his 
fubjedts, is re-eftablifhed by the emperor Henry. 
1028 Conftantine dies jn November, aged feventy, having 
compelled Romanus to divorce his wife and accept 
the empire, with his daughter Zoe as wife. Robert, 
furnamed the Devil, duke of Normand)'. 
1031 The emperor Romanus drives the Saracens out of 
Syria. The Normans conquer Apulia from the Greeks* 
1032 The kingdom of Arles or Burgundy is bequeathed 
to the emperor Conrad by Rodolph. 
1033 A great eclipfe of the fun, June 29, obferved about 
mid-day in France. 
1035 The kingdoms of Caftile and Arragon begin in 
Spain. William, furnamed the Baftard, duke of 
Normandy, afterwards king of England. 
1037 The battle of Bar le Due, in which Eudes, comte de 
Champagne, is defeated, September 17, and killed 
by the emperor Conrad. 
1039 The emperor Cpnrad dies at Utrecht, June 4. 
1040 Godwin, earl of Kent, Englilh minifter. 
1041 The emprefs Zoe dethrones Michael, and raifes 
Conftantine, who marries her, April 21. 
1042 The Turks take pofleflion of Perfia. 
1045 The emperor Henry III. comes to Verona in O6I0- 
ber, and calls a'council at Sutrium, where the three 
ufurping popes are depofed. 
1046 Leofric duke of Mercia; died 1057. 
1052 Emprefs Zoe, wife to three emperors, died, aged 
feventy. Peter Damiani; died 1072. 
1053 Pope Leo IX. defeated and taken prifoner in the 
kingdom of Naples, by the Normans, June 18. Mi¬ 
chael Cerularius flourilhed at this time. 
1058 Robert Guifcard drives the Saracens out of Sicily. 
1039 Berenger; died 1088, aged ninety. 
1065 Jerufalem taken, by the Turks, from the Saracens. 
1066 The conqueft of England, by William, furnamed 
the Baftard, duke of Normandy, in the battle of 
Haftings, on Saturday, Odtober 14. 
1070 Arzachel, of Toledo, obferved the declination of the 
fun, and found it to be 29 0 34'. He left 402 obler- 
valions on the apogee of the fun. 
1071 The emperor Romanus defeated and taken prifoner e 
by Azun the Turkilh general. 
1073 Henry IV. defeats the Saxons, at Neuftadt in Thu¬ 
ringia, June'9. f 
1076 The emperor Henry IV. and the pope quarrel about 
the nomination of the German bilhops. 
1077 The emperor of Germany goes bare-footed to the 
pope at Canufio, about the end of January. 
1079 Arzachel, the Spanilh mathematician, and arch- 
bifhop Langfranc, flourilhed. 
1080 Doomfday book begun to be compiled, from a furvcy 
of all the eftates in England ; and finilhed in 1086. 
.1081 William of Spires, the mathematician, living at this 
time ; and Edgar Atheling, died about 1110. 
1083 The emperor Henry IV. befieges and takes Rome, 
on Friday, June 2. - 
1085 Toledo taken from the Saracens by Alfonfo VI. and 
made the capital of Caftile, 
1087 Suidas author of the hiftorical Greek Lexicon. 
1088 The northern divifion of Portugal conquered from 
the Saracens by Alfonfo VI. Egbert totally defeats 
Henry IV. at Gleicha in Saxony, December 24. 
Henry the firft earl of Portugal. 
1091 The Saracens in Spain call in Jofeph king of Mo¬ 
rocco, who thus gets pofleflion of all their dominions 
in Spain. 
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