# 1094

Year 1094 (MXCIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

## Events
### By place
#### Byzantine Empire

* Spring – Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force under General Tatikios to Nicaea, in an attempt to re-capture the city from the Seljuk Turks. However, the arrival of Barkiyaruq's army en route stops the Byzantines. Alexios sends reinforcements; short of supplies, the Seljuk Turks retreat. Abu'l-Qasim, Seljuk governor of Nicaea, is defeated and forced to conclude a truce with Alexios.

#### Europe

* May – El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) completes his conquest of Valencia in Al-Andalus (modern Spain) and begins his rule (in the name of King Alfonso VI) there. The Almoravid campaign to regain the city fails.
* May–June – Duncan, son of the late King Malcolm III of Scotland, gathers a substantial army, chiefly Anglo-Normans from England, and challenges his uncle Donald III ("the Fair") for the Kingdom of Scotland. Duncan is crowned king at Scone.
* July 28 – William Bertrand dies, and his margravial title of Provence is inherited by Raymond IV ("Saint-Gilles"), who becomes count of Toulouse (until 1105).
* November 12 – Donald III mobilizes his army and kills Duncan II in battle in the Scottish Lowlands, re-taking the Scottish throne.

#### Fatimid Egypt

* After the death of Caliph al-Mustansir Billah, his son-in-law and vizier Al-Afdal declares al-Musta'li, a younger son of al-Mustansir, in a coup d'état as new Caliph. Al-Mustansir's designated heir, Nizar, flees to Alexandria.

#### Eastern Islamic world

* February 3 – Caliph of Baghdad al-Muqtadi dies and is succeeded by his nominated heir Ahmad (al-Mustazhir).
* October – Seljuk sultan Mahmud I dies after a 2-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Barkiyaruq (one of the Seljuk princes who claim the throne) as ruler of the Seljuk Empire.

### By topic
#### Religion

* May 15 – The Cathedral of St. Agatha in Catania (Sicily) is consecrated by the Breton abbot Ansger.
* October 8 – Doge Vitale Faliero consecrates the new Basilica of San Marco in Venice.
* King Ladislaus I of Hungary founds a diocese (alongside the bishop's see) in Zagreb.
* Al-Musta'li becomes the nineteenth imam of Musta'li Ismailism

## Births

* January 14 – Eudokia Komnene, Byzantine princess (d. 1129)
* Abd al-Mu'min, Almohad caliph (approximate date)
* Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar), Moorish physician (d. 1162)
* Malachy, Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1148)
* Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (d. 1120)
* Yelü Dashi, founder of the Qara Khitai (d. 1143)

## Deaths

* January 10 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1029)
* February 3
** Al-Muqtadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 1056)
** Teishi, Japanese empress (b. 1013)
* June 2 – Nicholas the Pilgrim, Italian shepherd (b. 1075)
* June 4 – Sancho V, king of Aragon and Pamplona
* July 28 – William Bertrand, margrave of Provence
* October 14
** Bertha of Holland, French queen consort
** Fujiwara no Nobunaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 1022)
* October – Mahmud I, sultan of the Seljuk Empire
* November 12 – Duncan II, king of Scotland
* Abu Ali Fana-Khusrau, Buyid nobleman
* Al-Bakri, Moorish historian and geographer
* Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, Seljuk sultan of Aleppo
* Badr al-Jamali, Fatimid vizier and statesman
* Isaac Albalia, Andalusian Jewish astronomer (b. 1035)
* Jonathan I, Italo-Norman count of Carinola
* Michael of Avranches, Italian bishop
* Roger de Beaumont, Norman nobleman
* Roger de Montgomery, Norman nobleman
* Terken Khatun, Seljuk empress and regent
* William Fitzeustace, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Norman nobleman
* Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman