1079 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Halsten and Ingold I succeed Haakon the Red in Sweden.
• Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
• William I of England establishes the New Forest.
• Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos.
• Abbess Hildegarde of St. Ruprechtsberg makes the first surviving reference to the use of hops in brewing. (or 1067?)

Births

• Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (d. 1142)
• Emperor Horikawa of Japan
• Kilij Arslan I

Deaths

• Alice, daughter of Hugh Capet of France
• Adáele (Alix), daughter of Robert II of France