Editing 1060 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Europe ====
* [[August 4]] &ndash; King [[Henry I of France]] (of the [[House of Capet]]) dies after a 29-year reign in [[Vitry-aux-Loges]]. He is succeeded by his 8-year-old son [[Philip I of France|Philip I]] ("the Amorous") as king of [[France in the Middle Ages|France]]. Philip is too young to rule, and his mother, Queen [[Anne of Kiev]] becomes [[regent]]. France is administered by Count [[Baldwin V, Count of Flanders|Baldwin V]] (one of Philip's uncles) who acts as co-regent.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QThLAAAAQBAJ&q=1060+Anne+of+Kiev&pg=PA79|title=The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe|last=Fößel|first=Amalie|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199582174|editor-last=Bennett|editor-first=Judith M.|location=Oxford and New York|pages=70|language=en|chapter=The Political Traditions of Female Rulership in Medieval Europe|editor-last2=Karras|editor-first2=Ruth Mazo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHRVDwAAQBAJ&q=1060+Anne+of+Kiev&pg=PA220|title=Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany|last=Jestice|first=Phyllis G.|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=9783319773063|series=Queenship and Power|location=Cham, Switzerland|pages=220|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXHF0nxMBdkC&q=1060+Baldwin+V+Flanders&pg=PA257|title=Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216|last=Oksanen|first=Eljas|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=9780521760997|series=Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought|location=Cambridge, UK and New York|pages=257|language=en|chapter=Appendix I: Timeline}}</ref>
* Summer &ndash; Norman forces under Duke [[Robert Guiscard]] invade [[Apulia]], and capture the cities of [[Taranto]] and [[Brindisi]] (under control of the [[Byzantine Empire]]). Guiscard prepares a Sicilian expedition against the [[Saracens]] and returns to [[Calabria]] (Southern [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy]]), where his brother [[Roger I of Sicily|Roger Bosso]] waits with [[siege engines]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQcNAAAAYAAJ&q=1060+Robert+Guiscard+Apulia&pg=PR79|title=Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the Continental Portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Including the City of Naples and Its Suburbs, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Vesuvius, the Islands of the Bay of Naples, and That Portion of the Papal States, Which Lies Between the Contorni of Rome and the Neapolitan Frontier|last=Blewitt|first=Octavian|publisher=John Murray|year=1853|location=London, Paris and Florence|pages=lxxix|language=en|chapter=Chapter 16: Chronological Tables}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzArDwAAQBAJ&q=1060+Robert+Guiscard+Apulia&pg=PA1069|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|last=Via|first=Anthony P.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=9781351664431|editor-last=Kleinhenz|editor-first=Christopher|series=Routledge Revivals|location=London and New York|pages=1069|language=en|chapter=Tancred of Hauteville, Son of}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4oPAAAAYAAJ&q=1060+Robert+Guiscard+Apulia&pg=PA189|title=Chronological Tables: Comprehending the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest Records to the Close of the Russian War|publisher=Richard Griffin|year=1857|volume=First Division: Ancient and Medieval History A.M. 1 to A.D. 1500|location=London and Glasgow|pages=189|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Béla I of Hungary|Béla I]] ("the Champion") is crowned king of [[Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)|Hungary]] after his nephew, [[Solomon, King of Hungary|Solomon]] is deprived of the crown. He is supported by Duke [[Bolesław II the Generous]] – who helps him (with Polish troops) to obtain the Hungarian throne.<ref>Richard Brzezinski (1998). ''History of Poland - The Piast Dynasty'', p. 19. {{ISBN|83-7212-019-6}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXymDwAAQBAJ&q=1060+Bela+I&pg=PA243|title=Chrysalis: Metamorphosis of Odium|last=Borovský|first=Jozef|publisher=FriesenPress|year=2019|isbn=9781525547690|location=Victoria, Canada|pages=243–244|language=en|chapter=Chapter 5: Cultus Imperium - Imperial Ungaria}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yI4cBQAAQBAJ&q=1060+Bela+I&pg=PA86|title=The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries)|last=Oța|first=Silviu|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=9789004281578|location=Leiden and Boston|pages=86|language=en}}</ref>

==== China ====
* The compilation of the ''[[New Book of Tang]]'' is completed, under a team of scholars led by [[Ouyang Xiu]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UAlDwAAQBAJ&q=1060+New+Book+of+Tang&pg=PA170|title=Encyclopedia of Chinese History|last=Ning|first=Chia|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|isbn=9781317817161|editor-last=Dillon|editor-first=Michael|location=London and New York|pages=170|language=en|chapter=Dynastic histories}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXN-DwAAQBAJ&q=1060+New+Book+of+Tang&pg=PA25|title=The First Chinese Travel Record on the Arab World: Commercial and Diplomatic Communications during the Islamic Golden Age|last=Wan|first=Lei|publisher=مركز الملك فيصل للبحوث والدراسات الإسلامية (King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies)|year=2017|isbn=9786038206218|location=Riyadh, Saudi Arabia|pages=25|language=en|chapter=The Earliest Record on Sino-Arab Maritime Route in a Chinese Official Dynastic Book}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sung|first=Chia-fu|date=2016-11-29|title=An Ambivalent Historian: Ouyang Xiu and His New Histories|journal=T'oung Pao|language=en|volume=102|issue=4–5|pages=358–406|doi=10.1163/15685322-10245P03|issn=0082-5433}}</ref>

==== Middle East ====
* [[August 30]] — The [[Mirdasids]] under [[Mahmud ibn Nasr]] defeat the [[Fatimid Caliphate]]'s army under [[Nasir al-Dawla Ibn Hamdan]] at the [[Battle of al-Funaydiq]], leading to the definitive loss of [[Aleppo]] for the Fatimids.<ref>{{cite book | last = Bianquis | first = Thierry | author-link = Thierry Bianquis | title = Damas et la Syrie sous la domination fatimide (359-468/969-1076). Deuxième tome | publisher = Presses de l’Ifpo | year = 1989 | url = https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifpo.6458 | isbn = 978-2-35159-526-8 | language = French | pages=569–571| doi = 10.4000/books.ifpo.6458 }}</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]] enters the [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] [[Bec Abbey]] in [[Duchy of Normandy|Normandy]], as a [[novice]] (approximate date).<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNkVDAAAQBAJ&q=1060+Anselm+Bec&pg=PR7|title=Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works|last=Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780199540082|editor-last=Davies|editor-first=Brian|series=Oxford World's Classics|location=Oxford and New York|pages=vii|language=en|chapter=Introduction: Anselm's Life and Works|editor-last2=G. R.|editor-first2=Evans}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7ISVNy75HUC&q=1060+Anselm+Bec&pg=PA19|title=Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan: The Innocence of the Dove and the Wisdom of the Serpent|last=Vaughn|first=Sally N.|publisher=University of California Press|year=1987|isbn=9780520056749|location=Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles and London|pages=19|language=en|chapter=Two: St. Anselm and Bec: Novice, Monk, Prior and Abbot, 1033 - 1092}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCntCwAAQBAJ&q=1060+Anselm+Bec&pg=PP1|title=Archbishop Anselm 1093–1109: Bec Missionary, Canterbury Primate, Patriarch of Another World|last=Vaughn|first=Sally N.|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317179832|location=London and New York|pages=23|language=en|chapter=Chapter 2. The Bec Background: A Missionary Mentality}}</ref></onlyinclude>