Editing 1050 (section)

==== Europe ====
* [[Hedeby]] in Jutland is sacked by King [[Harald Hardrada]] of [[Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)|Norway]], during the course of a conflict with [[Sweyn II of Denmark]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDh5z2_K_S0C&q=1050+Hedeby+Harald+III&pg=PA22|title=History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland|last=Derry|first=T. K.|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=2000|isbn=9780816637997|location=Minneapolis, MN and London|pages=22|language=en|orig-year=1979}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZndmDwAAQBAJ&q=1050+Hedeby+Harald+III&pg=PA80|title=Viking Warriors|last=Hubbard|first=Ben|publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC|year=2016|isbn=9781502624550|location=New York|pages=80|language=en}}</ref>
* King [[Anund Jacob]] dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother [[Emund the Old]] as king of [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af-cAAAAQBAJ&q=1050+Edmund+the+Old+Sweden&pg=PA177|title=Denmark, Finland, and Sweden|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|year=2014|isbn=9781615309955|series=The Britannica Guide to Countries of the European Union|location=New York|pages=177|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/sweden/setimeln.htm|title=Sweden Time Line Chronological Timetable of Events - Worldatlas.com|website=www.worldatlas.com|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref>
* [[Macbeth, King of Scotland]], makes a [[pilgrim]]age to [[Rome]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8z2ZEOE-azoC&q=1050+Macbeth+Rome&pg=PA78|title=History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages|last=Gregorovius|first=Ferdinand|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=9781108015035|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=78|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkzbIDj6rvkC&q=1050+Macbeth+Rome&pg=PA114|title=The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights: A History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millennium|last1=Klieforth|first1=Alexander Leslie|last2=Munro|first2=Robert John|publisher=University Press of America|year=2004|isbn=9780761827917|location=Dallas, Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford|pages=114|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1f3cAAAAQBAJ&q=1050+Macbeth+Rome&pg=PA64|title=The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction|last=Huscroft|first=Richard|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9781317866275|location=London and New York|pages=64|language=en|orig-year=2009}}</ref>