1089 facts for kids

Year 1089 (MLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Rama Varma Kulashekhara is crowned in Kerala.
• Palmyra is destroyed by an earthquake.

Europe

• Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.
• August 11 – A powerful earthquake is recorded in Britain.
• June 22 – Gaston IV of Bearn and the Frankish crusaders take the Aragonese city of Monzón from the emir of Zaragoza.

By topic

Religion

• Cîteaux Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery, is founded in southern France.
• The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II issued decrees against simony and the clerical marriage.

Births

• date unknown
  • Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1163)
  • Han Shizhong, Chinese general (d. 1151)

Deaths

• May 24 – Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury
• May 31 – Sigwin von Are, Archbishop of Cologne
• September 29 (or 30) – Theobald III, Count of Blois
• November 11 – Saint Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk

Images for kids

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  King Zvonimir and Queen Helena

See also

• In Spanish: 1089