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1053

Events

June 18 - Battle of Civitate - 3000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX

Good harvests in Europe

Malcolm Canmore invades Scotland.

Births

July 8 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)

Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124)

Vladimir Monomakh (d. 1125)

twins Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead and Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide, counts of Barcelona

Deaths

April 15 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Heads of states

Denmark - Sweyn Estridson, King (1047 - 1076).
England - Edward the Confessor, King (1042 - 1066).
Holy See - Leo IX,Pope (1049-1054).
Japan - Go-Reizei, Emperor (1045 - 1068)
Kievan Rus' - Yaroslav I the Wise, Kniaz (1019 - 1054).
Norway - Harald Hardråde, King (1046 - 1066).
Scotland - Macbeth, King (1040 - 1057)

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