History
1050
General
Population: 278 Million*
- Astronomy: Important astronomic instruments (astrolabes) arrive in Europe
- Entertainment: French biography "Vie de St. Alexis" written
First German Christmas carol – "Sys Willekomen heirre kersts"
Collection of Welsh tales "The Mabinogion" written
Polyphonic singing replaces Gregorian chants
Harp first arrives in Europe
Time values given to musical note
Ssu-ma-Kuang writes "History of China from 500 BC to AD 1000"
Polyphonic singing replaces Gregorian chant
- Geography: Geographer Adam of Bremen believes Baltic Sea to be an ocean open to the east
Earliest references to Nuremburg, Oslo, Delhi and Timbuktu
- Deaths: Musician Guido d'Arezzo - inventor of modern nusical notation
Africa
- Egypt: Egypt collapses under military dictatorship
- Ghana: End of golden age of Ghana - declines as Moslem stronghold
- Morocco: Almoravids – Berber Muslims from W Sahara start to take over Morocco, Algeria, and part of Spain
- Nigeria: End of Igbo-Ukwu culture in E Nigeria - Culture of Yoruba people of Ife flourishes in Nigeria until 1400
Americas
- North America: Growth of towns and ceremonial centers in Mississippi basin
Population of town at Cahokia explodes establishing large "chiefdom" in IL MO KY and OH area
Asia
- China: Ssu-ma-Kuang writes "History of China from 500 BC to AD 1000"
Chinese use ceramics to create moveable type
- India: Jain temples in Mount Abu India
- Japan: Japanese sculptor Jocho sets up school
Europe
- England: Northmen penetrate into England
Building of Exeter cathedral and Winchester Cathedral
English monks excel in embroidery
Famine
- German States: German imperial crown made
- Greece: Small tsunami on Santorini Greece after subterranean volcanic eruption
- Italian States: Palazzo Reale in Palermo
- Russia: Oldest Russian monasteries created in Kiev
St. Sophia Cathedroal in Novgorod
- Scotland: Macbeth has stepson named Lulach the Fatuous
- Spanish States: Almoravids from West Sahara begin takeover