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upright=1.35|thumb|Map of the Norman expansion in Italy and Illyria during the rule of Robert Guiscard.
Year 1084 (MLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
March 31 – Emperor Henry IV besieges Rome and enters the city. He is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Antipope Clement III in Rome and receives the patrician authority.Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-IV-Holy-Roman-emperor Encyclopedia Britannica 8 August 2018 en
May – Sack of Rome: Duke Robert Guiscard leads a Norman army (36,000 men) north and enters Rome; the city is sacked, and Henry IV is forced to retreat.
Robert Guiscard returns with 150 warships in Illyria (modern Albania), and occupies Corfu and Kefalonia with the support of Ragusa and the Dalmatian city-states.
King Halsten Stenkilsson is killed and his brother Inge the Elder is deposed in Svealand (modern Sweden). Inge is replaced by his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn.
Seljuk Empire
The Seljuk Turks under Sultan Malik-Shah I conquer Byzantine Antioch, held by Philaretos Brachamios, an Armenian general, who seizes power as a usurper.
Asia
Sima Guang, Chinese chancellor and historian, with a group of scholars, completes the Zizhi Tongjian, a chronicle of universal history of China.
April 21 – King Kyansittha begins his reign as ruler of the Pagan Kingdom in Burma (modern Myanmar).E Harvey G. History of Burma 2000 Asian Educational Services 9788120613652 36 https://books.google.com/books?id=vmIVhKXwrFcC&pg=PA36 en
By topic
Religion
Pope Gregory VII, who has been forced by the presence in Rome of Henry IV to retreat to the Castel Sant'Angelo, is freed by Robert Guiscard and restores papal authority in Rome.
Bruno of Cologne founds the Carthusian Order which includes both monks and nuns. He builds a hermitage in the French Alps.Carthusian religious order https://www.britannica.com/topic/Carthusians Encyclopedia Britannica 8 August 2018 en
Building work starts on Worcester Cathedral in England, orchestrated by Bishop Wulfstan.
Births
August 1 – Heonjong, Korean king of Goryeo (d. 1097)
Alan I (le Noir), viscount of Rohan (d. 1147)
Ali ibn Yusuf, ruler of the Almoravids (d. 1143)
Bahram-Shah, ruler of the Ghaznavids (d. 1157)
Charles I (the Good), count of Flanders (d. 1127)
David I, king of Scotland (approximate date)
Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet and writer
Rainier, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
Rechungpa, Tibetan founder of the Kagyu school (d. 1161)
Wang, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (d. 1108)
Deaths
February 16 – Siegfried I, archbishop of Mainz
June 28 – Ekkehard of Huysburg, German abbot
October 10 – Gilla Pátraic, bishop of Dublin
November 20 – Otto II, margrave of Montferrat
Aghsartan I, Georgian king of Kakheti and Hereti
Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 1057)
Halsten Stenkilsson, king of Sweden (approximate date)
Herfast (or Arfast), Norman Lord Chancellor
Hoël II, duke of Brittany (House of Cornouaille)
Saw Lu, king of the Pagan Kingdom (b. 1049)
References