1069 ( MLXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1069th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 69th year of the 2nd millennium , the 69th year of the 11th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1069, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events [ change | change source ]

• Harrying of the North : King William of England ( William the Conqueror ) reacts to rebellions made by his Anglo Saxon subjects against him. He rides through the north of England with his army and burns houses, crops, cattle and land from York to Durham , which results in the deaths of over 100,000 people, mainly from starvation and winter cold.
• William the Conqueror founds the Norman Selby Abbey .
• Abbad III al-Mu'tamid succeeds his father on the throne of Sevilla .
• Shenzong appoints Wang Anshi as his chief counsellor.
• Wang Anshi , chancellor of the Chinese Song Dynasty , implements the New Policies, which include financial reforms, raising the salaries of officials to reduce corruption, institution of the baojia system , etc.
• Start of Nam ti?n , the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam . ^[1]
• Magnus II of Norway dies and Olav III becomes sole King of Norway .
• The Seljuk Turks fail to capture Iconium , following a Byzantine counter-attack launched from Syria.

Deaths [ change | change source ]

• Aldred , archbishop of York
• Ibn Hazm , Muslim philosopher and theologian

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