1052
This page relates to the year 1052 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Africa
- the Almoravides attack the Ghana, bringing desolation.
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the Fatimides, incompetents to maintain their authority with the the Maghreb after the conquest of the Egypt, launch on the Ifriqiya the tribes Bedouins of the Banu Hilal, followed Banu Sulaym and Banu Maqtil. The country, ruined, breaks for centuries with Eastern Islam.
The Middle East
- Conquest of Edesse by the Byzantines.
Europe
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Edouard the Confessor manages to get rid of the Anglo-Danish party. Although feudality remains marked, Edouard divides the kingdom into counties of which the persons in charge, noble laic or bishops, chair the courts. The local parliaments deliberate there twice a year.
- Diarmait of Leinster takes again definitively the kingdom of Dublin.
- the emperor Henri III yields Bénévent to the pope Leon IX.
- the Normands attack the Sicily.
- the patriarch firm Michel Cérulaire with Constantinople churches of Latin rite.
- alliance between the Russia of Kiev and Byzance is reinforced by the marriage of the son of Iaroslav Wise the, Vsevolod, with a girl of Constantin IX Monomaque.
Art & culture
- has Saint-Denis, recognition of the relics of the saint.
- Construction of the church of the Saint-Romain-and-David with Vychgorod, to shelter there the remainders of Boris and Gleb (1052-1053).
Births in 1052
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May 23rd: Philippe Ier, king de France.
Death in 1052
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March 6th: Emma of Normandy, Queen of England.
- May 6th: Boniface III of Tuscany.
- July 27th: Halinard, archbishop of Lyon.
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