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11th Century |
| Chinese invent magnifying glass. | 1100 | |
| 1099 | Crusaders sack Jerusalem, killing 40,000. | |
| 1096 | Crusaders begin slaughtering French Jews. | |
| 1095 | Pope Urban II begins the first of eight Crusades. | |
| Shen Kuo of China develops the magnetic compass. | 1086 | William I of England orders The Doomsday Book compiled listing slaves as assets of landowners. |
| Constantine the African, disguised as a monk, compiles medical works and helps free medicine from religious hands. | 1080 | |
| 1074 | Pope Gregory VII excommunicates all married priests. | |
| 1044 | Pope Benedict IX sells papacy to Gregory VI. | |
| Chinese begin printing with movable type. | 1041 | |
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Lady Godiva
removes a heavy tax burden imposed on her people by riding naked on a horse through the
streets of Coventry. Guido d'Arezzo introduces names for pitches the octave scale. |
1040 | |
| Guido d'Arezzo develops the invents modern musical notation. | 1036 | |
| Arab physician Ibn Sina publishes his Canon of Medicine. | 1030 | |
| Boleslav the Brave frees Poland from the Holy Roman Empire. | 1025 | |
| Japanese baroness Shikibu Murasaki publishes The Tale of Genji. | 1016 | |
| 1012 | Germany begins to persecute heretics. | |
| 1011 | "Handkerchief of Veronica" stored in Rome. | |
| The Shah-nama by Mansur Abu'l-Quasim Firdawsi presented to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. | 1010 | |
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