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January—Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished from Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
The Normans conquer Messina in Sicily.
October 1—Pope Alexander II succeeds Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
Erection of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
Most of West Frisia (later known as Holland) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.
Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.