1062

By place

Europe

• Spring - The 11-year-old King Henry IV is abducted as a result of the Coup of Kaiserswerth, a conspiracy of German nobles led by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne. Henry's education and training is supervised by Anno, who acts as his regent and is called his magister. Empress Agnes of Poitou resigns the throne, and Anno with the archbishops Siegfried I and Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place.

  England

• Winter - Harold Godwinson leads a successful campaign against King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He attacks and captures Rhuddlan Castle in northern Wales, but Gruffydd manages to escape.

  Africa

• The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.
• The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya.
• Marrakech is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.

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Religion

• Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem.