1089

Events 
 By area 

 Asia 
 Rama Varma Kulashekhara is crowned in Kerala.
 Palmyra is destroyed by an earthquake.

 Europe 
 Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.
 August 11 – A powerful earthquake is recorded in Britain.
 June 22 – Gaston IV of Bearn and the Frankish crusaders take the Aragonese city of Monzón from the emir of Zaragoza.

 By topic 
 Religion 
 Cîteaux Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery, is founded in southern France.
 The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II issued decrees against simony and the clerical marriage.Pope Bl. Urban II, Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15210a.htm

 Births 
 Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1163)
 Han Shizhong, Chinese general (d. 1151)

 Deaths 
 May 24 – Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury
 May 31 – Sigwin von Are, Archbishop of Cologne
 September 29 (or 30) – Theobald III, Count of Blois
 November 11 – Saint Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk 

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