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| 1042 |
| | | Edward the Confessor, the rightful heir in the Anglo-Saxon royal line, becomes king of England | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | Islam reaches Kanem-Bornu, a joint kingdom encompassing the eastern and western shores of Lake Chad | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | The heavier and more dense style of calligraphy, known as 'black letter', becomes the fashion in manuscripts written in northern Europe | |
|  | Nuremberg Chronicle, black-letter typography
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| c. 1050 |
| | | A Muslim dynasty is established at Kilwa, on the east African coast | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | The concept of movable type for printing is pioneered in China, using fired clay, but it proves impractical | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | The rulers of Baghdad harness homing pigeons as postmen. | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | Polyphony brings new complexity of interweaving vocal lines, in the choral singing of abbey or cathedral | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | The earliest surviving reference to the principle of the compass occurs in a Chinese manuscript | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | Ife emerges as a powerful kingdom in the equatorial forest of the lower Niger | |
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| 1054 |
| | | A Russian chronicle makes the first mention of the marauding Polovtsy, who persistently raid Russian cities from the steppes | |
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