Editing 11th century (section)

===[[1060s]]===
[[Image:Bayeux Tapestry WillelmDux.jpg|right|thumb|upright|The [[Bayeux Tapestry]] depicting events leading to the [[Battle of Hastings]] in 1066]]
* 1061–1091: [[Norman conquest of southern Italy|Norman conquest]] of [[Sicily]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]
* 1064-1065: The [[Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–65|Great German Pilgrimage]], consisting of around unarmed 7,000 [[pilgrim]]s, travels to [[Jerusalem]] under the leadership of [[Gunther of Bamberg]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Einar Joranson |editor1-last=Paetow |editor1-first=Louis J. |title=The Crusades and Other Historical Essays Presented to Dana C. Munro by his Former Students |date=1928 |publisher=Crofts |location=New York |pages=3–43 |url=https://archive.org/details/crusadesotherhis0000unse/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=21 March 2023 |chapter=The Great German Pilgrimage of 1064-1065}}</ref> 
* 1065: [[Great Seljuq Empire|Seljuks]] first invasion to [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgia]] under leadership of [[Alp Arslan]]
* 1065: Independence of the [[Kingdom of Galicia]] and [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] under the rule of Garcia
* 1066: in the [[Battle of Stamford Bridge]], the last Anglo-Saxon King [[Harold Godwinson]] defeated his brother [[Tostig Godwinson]] and [[Harold III of Norway]].
* 1066: [[Edward the Confessor]] dies; [[Harold Godwinson]] is killed in the [[Battle of Hastings]], while the Norman [[William the Conqueror]] is crowned king of England. This is what most experts think of as the end of the Viking age.
* 1066: the [[Jewish]] [[vizier]] [[Joseph ibn Naghrela]] and many others are killed in the [[1066 Granada massacre]].
* 1068–1073: the reign of Japanese [[Emperor Go-Sanjō]] brings about a brief period where central power is taken out of the hands of the [[Fujiwara clan]].
* 1068: [[Virarajendra Chola]] begins sending military raids into Malaysia and Indonesia.
* 1068: [[Seljuks]] destroyed [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgia]] for the second time
* 1069–1076: with the support of [[Emperor Shenzong of Song]], Chancellor [[Wang Anshi]] of the Chinese [[Song dynasty]] introduces the '[[New Policies (Song dynasty)|New Policies]]', including the [[Baojia system]] of societal organization and militias, low-cost loans for farmers, taxes instead of [[corvée]] labor, government monopolies on [[tea]], [[salt]], and [[wine]], reforming the [[Cadastre|land survey]] system, and eliminating the poetry requirement in the [[imperial examination]] system to gain bureaucrats of a more practical bent.