1075 facts for kids

Year 1075 (MLXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February – Pope Gregory VII holds a council that publishes a decree against lay investiture.
• 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 against William I of England (William the Conqueror), in the last serious act of resistance to the Norman Conquest.
• First Battle of Langensalza: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Saxon nobles and subjugates Saxony.
• The Liao Dynasty version of the Buddhist Tripitaka is completed (approximate date).
• Anund Gårdske is removed as king of Svealand and king Håkan the Red of Gothenland makes himself king of all Sweden.
• The Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem from the Fatimids.
• Lý dynasty forces under Lý Thường Kiệt defend Vietnam against invasion by Song Dynasty China.
• The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo solves a border dispute with the Liao Dynasty by finding old diplomatic records; he argues Emperor Daozong of Liao's bluffs point for point during a meeting at Mt. Yongan (near modern Pingquan in Hebei), and reestablishes the Song's borders.

Births

• June 9 – Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1137)
• Saint Magnus Erlendsson (d. 1116 or 1117)
• Adelaide del Vasto (d. 1118)
• Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian (approximate date)

Deaths

• June 10 – Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
• August 2 – Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople
• December 4 – Anno II, archbishop of Cologne
• December 19 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
• John Xiphilinus, Byzantine historian
• Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Gwynedd
• Peter Krešimir IV, King of Croatia

Images for kids

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  Modern artist impression of Shen Kuo