What happened in AD 1100?

Question

In europe? Besides the end of the first crusade? ARe there any other events or topics from that tiem that woudl be good for different types of newspaper articles?

Answer 1

Jeu de paume , a handball game and the forerunner of real - tennis, is first played in France by monks in monastery cloisters ; it is later taken up and played on courts by the French monarchy and aristocracy but it is not played with rackets until around 1500.

Crop rotation methods are introduced into England, though they have been used in mainland Europe for some time. By using a three - year rotation, English agriculture will in later centuries become the most efficient in Europe.

Old English, the common language of England, with strong roots in the Germanic languages of the early invaders, begins to be replaced by Middle English. Middle English embodies the Northern European origins of English, but is also starting to reflect the influence of Latin and Norman French.

The often noble troubadours (lyric poets) of northern France and trouvères (poets with a narrative style) of southern France emerge, the subject of their songs usually being courtly love. Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, is the earliest troubadour whose works have survived.

William II Rufus' brother Henry is crowned king of England ; he issues a charter of liberties and recalls Anselm as archbishop of Canterbury.(5 Aug 1100)

The antipope Clement III dies ; a Roman faction takes advantage of the absence of the legitimate pope Paschal II, currently in southern Italy, to crown Theodoric as Clement's successor, but he is expelled later in the year (9 Sept 1100)

Answer 2

The first Europeans arrived in the "New World." At that time the Vikings made a landing at L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, and set up a permanent settlement before being driven out by the local Natives. (either Micmac or Beothuk)

Answer 3

Hanseatic league. Venice and the Italian cities were prospering by trade with the Levant, The Flemish cities were prospering as weaving centers and were expanding or just beginning to. The Vikings had founded Kiev. Constantinople was shuddering under Turkish attack.

Answer 4

In 1014, the Byzantine Emperor Basil II set the regular for conflict crimes via attempting to place an end to Bulgarian invasions via blinding 15,000 Bulgarian POWs and sending them decrease back to Bulgaria. From a narrow point of view it worked, considering in 1018, he replaced into finally able to annex Bulgaria.

Answer 5

1066 "Battle of Hastings" I know it happened 34 years earlier, but you could do a "looking back" column?
http://www.battle1066.com/intro.shtml

This timeline is one that you should keep as it can work for any time in history. You would need to sort through, if you just want European events, though. http://www.decades.com/ByDecade/1100-1109/1.htm

Answer 6

New Antipopes arise on the death of Guibert (Clement III), one of whom assumes the name of Sylvester IV.
William Rufus is accidentally slain.
Henry I becomes king of England; he further renews the laws of Edward the Confessor and unites the Saxon and Norman races by his marriage with Matilda, granddaughter of Edmund "Ironside."

Answer 7

Hmmm... well around that time, I'd guess the Normans were solidifying their rule of England, building all their castles and such. About 40 or so years earlier they had conquered it.