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

==== Europe ====
* Spring &ndash; [[Robert de Grandmesnil]], his nephew [[Berengar (bishop of Venosa)|Berengar]], half-sister [[Judith d'Évreux|Judith]] (future wife of [[Roger I of Sicily|Roger I]]), and eleven monks of the [[Abbey of Saint-Evroul]], are banished by Duke [[William the Conqueror|William II]] ("the Bastard") of [[Duchy of Normandy|Normandy]] for violence, and travel to [[Southern Italy]].<ref>John Julius Norwich, ''The Normans in the South 1016–1130'' (London: Solitaire Books, 1981), pp. 146–47.</ref>
* Summer &ndash; Norman forces led by Duke [[Robert Guiscard]] and his brother Roger I invade [[Emirate of Sicily|Sicily]]. They land unseen during the night and surprise the [[Saracens|Saracen]] army. Guiscard conquers [[Messina]] and marches into central Sicily.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; Count [[Floris I, Count of Holland|Floris I]] is ambushed on a retreat from [[Zaltbommel]] and killed by German troops at [[Nederhemert]]. Most of [[West Frisia]] (later part of the [[County of Holland]]) is conquered and annexed by the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
* Sosols (a tribe in [[Estonia]]) destroy the [[Kievan Rus']] fortification of Yuryev in [[Tartu]], and carry out a raid on [[Pskov]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mäesalu|first1=Ain|title=Could Kedipiv in East-Slavonic Chronicles be Keava hill fort?|journal=Estonian Journal of Archaeology|date=2012|volume=1|page=199|url=http://www.kirj.ee/public/Archaeology/2012/sup_vol_1/arhe-keava-2012-195-200.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.kirj.ee/public/Archaeology/2012/sup_vol_1/arhe-keava-2012-195-200.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=27 December 2016}}</ref>

==== Africa ====
* Sultan [[Yusuf ibn Tashfin]] succeeds to the throne of [[Morocco]], following the [[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravid]] conquest.

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==== Religion ====
*[[July 27]] &ndash; Pope [[Pope Nicholas II|Nicholas II]] dies after a 2-year [[pontificate]] at [[Florence]]. He is succeeded by [[Pope Alexander II|Alexander II]] as the 156th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]] in [[Rome]]. 
* The [[Speyer Cathedral]] is consecrated in [[Speyer]] (modern [[Germany]]).
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