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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1057 1058 1059 – 1060 – 1061 1062 1063

{{C11YearInT 1066 was the time of the war

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Music

[edit] Events

• May—The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
• October—The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
• The compilation of the New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
• Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
• Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
• Philip I of France begins his reign.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• King Andrew I of Hungary (b. 1015)
• August 4—King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• November 14—Count Geoffrey II of Anjou
• Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet

[edit] Music

• 1060 is the name of a band, based in Brussels, Belgium.