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1106

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Year 1106 (MCVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • February 2 – Great Comet of 1106 first sighted.
  • September 28 – Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes Castle; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.
  • Balaguer, Spain, is captured from the Moors by the count of Urgell.
  • Boleslaus III of Poland begins a war against his brother Zbigniew for control of Poland.
  • Magnus Erlendsson becomes Earl of Orkney.

    • Births

  • Pope Celestine III (approximate date; d. 1198)
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese leader of the Minamoto armies in the Genpei War (d. 1180)

    • Deaths

  • August 7 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
  • August 23 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony
  • Robert Malet, English baron
  • Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Syrian jurist and philologist
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin, ruler of Spain and North Africa

    • References

    1106 Wikipedia
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