- 1075
Events
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February -Pope Gregory VII holds a council that publishes a decree against layinvestiture .
*April -Pope Gregory VII publishes the "Dictatus Papae" (Sayings of the Pope, aka the Dictates of Hildebrand), in which he asserts papal authority over earthly as well as spiritual rulers.
*Revolt of the Earls : Three earls rebel againstWilliam I of England (William the Conqueror), in the last serious act of resistance to theNorman Conquest .
*First Battle of Langensalza :Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Saxon nobles and subjugatesSaxony .
* TheLiao Dynasty version of theBuddhist Tripitaka is completed (approximate date).
* TheSeljuk Turks takeJerusalem from theFatimids .
* TheSong Dynasty Chinesepolymath scientist and statesmanShen Kuo solves a heated border dispute with theLiao Dynasty by dredging up old diplomatic records; he refutesEmperor Daozong of Liao 's bluffs point for point during a meeting at Mt. Yongan (near modern Pingquan inHebei ), and reestablishes the Song's rightful borders.Births
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Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1137 )
* Saint Magnus Erlendsson (d.1116 or1117 )
*Adelaide del Vasto (d.April 16 ,1118 )
*Orderic Vitalis ,monk andhistorian (approximate date)Deaths
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June 10 — Ernest of Austria (b.1027 )
*December 4 —Anno II, archbishop of Cologne
*December 19 —Edith of Wessex , queen ofEdward the Confessor of England
*John Xiphilinus , Byzantine historian
*Bleddyn ap Cynfyn ,King of Gwynedd
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