- 1061
Events
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January —Robert de Grantmesnil , his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife ofRoger I of Sicily ), and eleven monks ofSaint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished fromNormandy and head to theMezzogiorno .
* TheNormans conquer Messina in Sicily.
*October 1 —Pope Alexander II succeedsPope Nicholas II as the 156thpope .
* Erection of theSpeyer Cathedral inSpeyer ,Germany , begins.
*Vratislav II becomes duke ofBohemia .
* Most of West Frisia (later known asHolland ) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to theBishop of Utrecht .
*Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev inTartu and carry out raids in thePskov region inRussia .
* Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne ofMorocco , following theAlmoravid conquest.Births
Deaths
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January 28 — DukeSpytihněv II of Bohemia (b.1031 )
*July 18 (orJuly 27 ) —Pope Nicholas II
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