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1066

1066 - Events

• January 6 - Harold II is crowned King of England the day after Edward the Confessor dies.
• September 20 - Tostig Godwinson and Harald Hardraada of Norway invade England, landing at Riccall just south of York.
• September 25 - Harold II defeats Tostig and Harald Hardraada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, killing both.
• September 28 - Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invades England.
• October 14 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. The Norman dynasty of English Kings followed. England was not successfully invaded again until the invasion of William III on November 5, 1688.

• The Viking port of Hedeby was destroyed by marauding Slavs.
• A new church is begun at Monte Cassino.
• Halley's Comet is sighted in Britain.
• Boxgrove Priory founded

1066 - Births

• Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt.
• Henry, Count of Portugal
• Irene Ducaena, wife of Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus

1066 - Deaths

• January 5 - King Edward the Confessor of England
• September 25 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
  • Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
  • King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
• October 14 - Killed at the Battle of Hastings:
  • King Harold II of England
• November 10 - Sacrificed to Radegast:
  • Bishop of Mecklenburg Johannes Skotus (b. approx. 990)

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