1060

Events 

 May – The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
 October – The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
 December 6 – Béla I the Champion is crowned king of Hungary.
 The New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
 Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
 Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
 Philip I of France begins his reign.
 Upon the death of Emund the Old, he is succeeded by his son-in-law Tek The Almighty as King of Sweden.

 Births 

 Deaths 
 August 4 – King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
 November 14 – Count Geoffrey II of Anjou
 King Andrew I of Hungary (b. 1015)
 Emund the Old, king of Sweden since 1050
 Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet