- 1021
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Events
By Place
Europe
* The
Moorish state of Valencia becomes independent.Asia
*
Mahmud appoints Ayaz to the throne, makingLahore the capital of theGhaznavid Empire .
* A Khitan princess is sent to marry into theGoryeo royal family , securing ties between theKoreans and theLiao Dynasty .
* TheSong Dynasty Chinese capital city ofKaifeng has some half a million residents by this year; including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
* TheChola Empire invadesBengal .Births
*
Eudocia Macrembolitissa , empress of Byzantine EmperorConstantine X (d.1096 )
*Wang Anshi , Chinese reformer,statesman ,economist ,poet (d.1086 )Deaths
* Tāriqu l-Ḥakīm, Sixth
Fatimid Caliph of Egypt
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