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1000<\/strong> World population 300 million. Scandinavia and Hungary converted to Christianity. Leif Ericson lands in North America, calling it Vinland. Gunpowder invented in China.<\/p>\n

1009<\/strong> Muslims destroy Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

1010<\/strong> The Tale of Genji, the book usually considered as the world’s first novel, by Shikibu Murasaki, lady in waiting to the empress of Japan. Nile frozen over – also happened in 829. <\/p>\n

1014<\/strong> Brian Boru defeats the Vikings at Clontarf, Ireland.<\/p>\n

1023<\/strong> Paper money printed in China.<\/p>\n

1050<\/strong> Birth of the Yiddish language<\/a>, formed out of the meeting between old French and old Italian dialects with admixture of Hebrew words.<\/p>\n

1054<\/strong> East-West schism in Christianity, the final split separating the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic after centuries of disagreement. In this year Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael Cerularius excommunicated each other.<\/p>\n

1066<\/strong> William the Conqueror, from Normandy in France, invades England, defeats last Saxon king, Harold II, at Battle of Hastings.<\/p>\n

1068 Construction on Cathedral in Pisa begins.<\/p>\n

1073<\/strong> Pope Gregory VII attacks the problem called simony, the buying and selling of offices in the church, such as paying a large fee to be named bishop. He then decreed an end to marriage among the clergy.<\/p>\n

1077<\/strong> Windsor Castle built.<\/p>\n

1086<\/strong> Shen Kua of China writes about the magnetic compass, relief maps and the origins of fossils.<\/p>\n

1088<\/strong> First modern university established in Bologna, Italy. Universities developed over centuries as “stadiums.”<\/p>\n

1095<\/strong> At Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II calls for holy war to wrest Jerusalem from Muslims, launching the First Crusade the next year. Gilbert Crispin’s “A Friendly Disputation” published – a series of discussions on the opposing arguments of faiths between him and a Jew from Mainz.<\/p>\n

1096<\/strong> First Crusade<\/a> begins, first of eight until 1291.<\/p>\n

1099<\/strong> Crusaders capture Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

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