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'''1066''' is considered a watershed year in history. |
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==Events== |
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Revision as of 01:40, 2 June 2006
| Years: 1063 1064 1065 - 1066 - 1067 1068 1069 | |
| Decades: 1030s 1040s 1050s - 1060s - 1070s 1080s 1090s | |
| Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century | |
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1066 is considered a watershed year in history.
Events
- January 6 - Harold II is crowned
- September 20 - Battle of Fulford
- September 25 - Battle of Stamford Bridge
- September 29 - William of Normandy lands in England at Pevensey.
- October 14 - Battle of Hastings
Births
- Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt.
- Henry, Count of Portugal
- Irene Ducaena, wife of Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus
Deaths
- January 5 - King Edward the Confessor of England
- September 25 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
- Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
- King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
- October 14 - Killed at the Battle of Hastings:
- King Harold II of England
- Leofwine Godwinson and
- Gyrth Godwinson, brothers of King Harold
- November 10
- Bishop of Mecklenburg Johannes Skotus (b. approx. 990)- Sacrificed to Radegast