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Events 

 By area 

 Americas 
 Sunset Crater Volcano (present-day Arizona) first erupts.

 Asia 
 The Seljuk Turks storm Anatolia, taking Caesarea and Ani, marking the beginning of Turkish invasions into Anatolia.

 Europe 
 June 9 – Coimbra is taken by King Ferdinand of Castile.
 European warriors go to Spain to participate to the siege of Barbastro. This expedition is approved by the Pope and is now regarded as an early form of Crusade.
 Harold II is shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.
 Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

 Births 
 Borivoj II of Bohemia, a Duke of Bohemia
 Robert Fitz Richard, a Norman landowner in England
 Niels of Denmark, a King of Denmark

 Deaths 
 Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa`id Ibn Hazm
 Ottokar I of Styria
 Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar
 Yi Yuanji – Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his realistic paintings of animals (b. 1000)

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