Eleventh Century

Articles about 11th Century

Website Links For 11th Century

Information About Eleventh Century

	CATEGORIES ABOUT 11TH CENTURY
	11th century
	centuries11th century
	centuries
	years
	centuries
	2nd millennium

	APPAREL
	BABY
	BEAUTY
	BOOKS
	CAR TOYS
	CELL PHONES
	DVD'S
	ELECTRONICS
	GOURMET FOOD
	GROCERIES
	HEALTH & PERSONAL
	HOME & GARDEN
	JEWELRY
	MUSIC
	MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
	OFFICE PRODUCTS
	SOFTWARE
	SPORTING GOODS
	TOOLS & HARDWARE
	TOYS
	VIDEO GAMES
	SHOPPING HOME
	MORE SHOPPING...

	Cpb	th century
	C	11th century
	Cn1	12th Century

As a means of recording the passage of Time , the 11th century was that Century which lasted from 1001 to 1100 . In the history of European culture, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages .


OVERVIEW


EVENTS

depicting events leading to the Battle Of Hastings ]]

• 1001 , Mahmud Of Ghazni , Muslim leader of Ghazni , begins raids into Northern India ; he finishes in 1027 .


• Circa 1001 , Vikings , led by Leif Eriksson , establish small settlements in and around Vinland in North America


• 1054 , the Great Schism , in which the Western ( Roman Catholic ) and Eastern Orthodox churches separated from each other. Similar schisms in the past had been later repaired, but this one continues after nearly 1000 years.


• 1060 , Norman Conquest of Sicily


• 1065 , independence of the Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal under the rule of Garcia


• 1066 , Edward The Confessor dies; Norman conquest of England in the Battle Of Hastings


• 1071 , Defeat of the Byzantine Empire at the Battle Of Manzikert , ending 3 centuries of military and economic power


• 1076 , Ghana Empire began break-up after capital (Kumbi) sacked


• 1085 , Alfonso VI Of Castile captures the Muslim city of Toledo .


• 1086 , compilation of the Domesday Book

• 1094 , El Cid , the great Spanish hero, conquers the Muslim city of Valencia


• ca. 1095 - 1099 , earliest extant manuscript of the '' Song Of Roland ''


• 1099 , First Crusade captures Jerusalem


• King Anawrahta of Myanmar made a pilgrimage to Ceylon , returning to convert his country to Theravada Buddhism.


• The Tuareg migrate to the Aïr region.


• Kanem-Bornu expands southward into modern Nigeria .


• The first of seven Hausa City-states are founded in Nigeria .


• The Hodh region of Mauritania becomes desert.

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

• Basil II Byzantine Emperor (Lived 958-1025,Reigned 976-1025)


• Alexius I Comnenus Byzantine Emperor (lived 1048-1180) (reigned 1081-1118)


• Canute


• William The Conqueror


• Macbeth


• Alp Arslan


• Pope Saint Gregory VII (Hildebrand)


• Saint Anselm , reputed founder of scholasticism and creator of the ontological argument.


• St Robert, founder of the Cistercians


• Emperor Henry III


• Emperor Henry IV


• Pope Urban II


• Empress Agnes


• Konrad II


• Archbishop Anno II Of Cologne


• Stephen I Of Hungary


• Leif Eriksson


• Tunka Manin ruler of the Ghana Empire


• El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar)

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

• Troubadour s appear in what is now southern France .


• Invention of military Rocket s by the Chinese


• '' The Tale Of Genji '' by Murasaki Shikibu is one of the first Novel s in Japanese


• The Tittle was created.

DECADES AND YEARS