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Events

March 23 - Battle of Cesar : The armies of Bermudo III, King of León, defeat the Moorish armies of Abu'l-Qasim, the emir of the Taifa of Seville.
c. July 3 - 8-year-old William I becomes duke of Normandy after his father Robert I dies on a pilgrimage at Nicaea. Robert's death leads to a period of instability in Normandy, as William is too young to take his father's place. The Norman nobles in the region take the opportunity to settle old feuds and to increase their private wealth.
October 16 - Conrad II grants the right to hold the first Freimarkt festival in Bremen. The city increases her trade with Norway, and the northern Netherlands.
October 18 - King Sancho III of Pamplona dies and divides his dominions among his four sons, García Sánchez III, Gonzalo I, Ferdinand I and Ramiro I.
Pisa launches a naval assault against Saracen pirate strongholds in the Lipari Islands.
Emperor Conrad II grants the city of Koper town rights, and some degree of self-government, within the Holy Roman Empire.

November 12 - King Cnut the Great dies at Shaftesbury, leaving the rule of England in dispute between his sons Harthacnut and Harold Harefoot. The earls of Northumbria and Mercia support Harold's claim, while Godwin supports Harthacnut. Harold is elected as regent of England. Cnut is buried in the Old Minster, in Winchester.
Winter - Harthacnut is unable to travel to his coronation in England because his Danish kingdom is under threat of an invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and King Anund Jacob of Sweden.