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1072

EVENTS

William I Of England invades Scotland , and also receives the submission of Hereward The Wake .

Osbern FitzOsbern becomes Bishop Of Exeter .

January 10 — Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily .

The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March 16 — Adalbert Of Hamburg , German archbishop

September 22 — Ouyang Xiu , Chinese statesman, Historian , Essayist and Poet (b. 1007 )

December 15 — Alp Arslan , Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029 )

Stigand , Archbishop Of Canterbury