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| 909 |
| | | Monastic reform, begun at Cluny, is so successful that more than 1000 Benedictine houses eventually follow the Cluniac example | |
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| 911 |
| | | The Vikings settle in France, as Normans, when Rollo the Ganger is granted feudal rights over the region round Rouen | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy | |
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| 987 |
| | | Hugh Capet, a Frankish noble elected king of west Francia, establishes the royal dynasty of France. | |
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| 987 |
| | | Hugh Capet is the first in an unbroken line of twelve generations on the throne of France | |
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| 1066 |
| | | Halley's comet, appearing in the Normans' annus mirabilis, is later depicted in the Bayeux tapestry | |
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| 1066 |
| | | The Normans, as seen in the Bayeux tapestry, invade England in Viking longships with fortified platforms for archers | |
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| 1078 |
| | | Anselm includes in his Proslogion his famous 'ontological proof' of the existence of God | |
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| c. 1080 |
| | | Work begins on the story of the Norman conquest, narrated in embroidery in the Bayeux tapestry | |
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| 1084 |
| | | St Bruno and six companions retire to Chartreuse, in the French Alps, and establish the Carthusian order | |
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