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Events

The Lý dynasty is established in Vietnam, and moves the capital to Thăng Long.
Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao dynasty, and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong.
Song Zhun of Song dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village.
In the Chola dynasty of southern India, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn.

January - Fujiwara no Kenshi (daughter of Michinaga) is married to the imperial heir Crown Prince Okisada.
February 14 - On the death of Fujiwara no Korechika his daughter, the poet Fujiwara no Chikako, becomes a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi.
Emperor Ichijō wants to retire – the influential statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga supports Crown Prince Okisada, who will be the successor, but the emperor prefers his eldest son by the late Empress Teishi, Prince Atsuyasu, who has been raised by Empress Shōshi, who also supports her stepson, leading to conflict at court.

Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America.

The construction of 217 ft tall Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur is completed during the Chola dynasty, and at about this time the wall painting ''Rajaraja I and His Teacher''

March 8 - Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing the Shahnameh, which will be regarded as the national epic of the greater Iranian culture.
Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese.Beowulf is written anonymously in Old English.

Eilmer of Malmesbury in England attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.