1085

Calendar overview 1085

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1085
Pope Gregory VII dies in exile in Salerno .
The Chinese emperor Song Shenzong from the Song Dynasty dies.	Alfonso VI of Castile and León recaptured Toledo from the Moors and moved its capital here .
1085 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	533/534 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1077/78
Buddhist calendar	1628/29 (southern Buddhism); 1627/28 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	63rd (64th) cycle Year of the Wood Ox 乙丑 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Rat R)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	447/448 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	463/464 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	477/478 (April 28-29)
Jewish calendar	4845/46 (September 21/22)
Coptic calendar	801/802
Malayalam calendar	260/261
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1395/96 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1396/97 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1123
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1141/42 (turn of the year April)

Events

Song Zhezong

April 2 : Zhezong becomes emperor of the Chinese Song dynasty , replacing Shenzong .

May 25th : Alfonso VI. of Castile and Leon recaptured Toledo from the Moors and relocated its capital there.
May 25 : Pope Gregory VII dies in exile in Salerno . While still on his deathbed, he expressly takes Emperor Heinrich IV and antipope Clemens III. from his forgiveness.
After his escape from Rome, Emperor Heinrich IV retreats to Germany after being defeated by the Normans. At the end of May he held a synod in which he deposed Hermann as bishop of Metz and another 15 supporters of Gregory deposed as bishops and excommunicated. At the same time, the proclamation of the “ God's peace ”, a forerunner of later rural peace .
Robert Guiscard , Norman Duke of Calabria , rushes after his victory over Henry IV. To Greece, where his son Bohemund rearguard actions against the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I lead. After a few defeats against the Venetian fleet allied with Alexios, the Normans decisively beat an opposing ship formation near Corfu . Robert is now preparing to penetrate the Ionian Sea, via which he will reach the island of Kefalonia . He died here, presumably on July 17th, near Atheras, presumably of typhus or dysentery. His son Roger Borsa is his successor as Prince of Apulia and Calabria , Bohemond only receives Taranto.

First documented mention of the city of Hückeswagen as well as the city of Pryluky ( Ukraine ) and Waltenschwil

Christmas: King William I of England orders that the taxable property of his land be recorded. The Domesday Book will emerge from this over the next few years .

First page of the Song of Songs paraphrase by Williram von Ebersberg

January 3 : Williram von Ebersberg , Benedictine Abbot von Ebersberg and Bible translator (* before 1010)
January 21 : Dietrich II of Katlenburg , Count in Lies- and Rittigau

February 5 : Friedrich III. von Goseck , son of the Count Palatine of Saxony (* around 1065 )
March 22nd : Walter de Lacy , Norman nobleman (* 1046 )

July 17th : Robert Guiscard , Norman prince, Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Benevento (* around 1015 )
July 30th : Suanhild , Abbess at Essen Abbey

August 20 : al-Juwainī , legal scholar and theologian (* 1028 )
September 20 : Hermann II , Count Palatine of Lorraine, Count in Zülpichgau, Ruhrgau and Brabant (* around 1049 )
November 25th : Johann I von Breunau , monk and first bishop of Olomouc

Alfanus of Salerno , poet, translator, Bendectin monk and Archbishop of Salerno (* around 1015 )

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