Year 1087 (MLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe Summer – The Taifa of Valencia falls under the domination of El Cid. He stabilizes the region around Valencia, which has revolted against the Moorish puppet ruler Al-Qadir.Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83. Inge the Elder returns to Svealand and kills his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn after a 3-year reign. Inge again proclaims himself king of Sweden (approximate date).
England September 9 – William the Conqueror dies in Rouen after a fall from his horse. He is succeeded as king of England by his third son William II. A fire in London destroys much of the city, including St. Paul's Cathedral. Bishop Maurice starts the rebuilding of a new, much larger cathedral.
Africa Mahdia campaign: The navies of Genoa and Pisa take the capital of the Zirids, and occupy Mahdia for a year. Subsequently, both republics obtain trading privileges.Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 56. Completion of Bab al-Futuh, Cairo
Japan January 3 – Emperor Shirakawa abdicates in favor of his 7-year-old son Horikawa after a 14-year reign. He exerts his personal power to set the cloistered rule system further in motion.
Middle East May: The marriage of Caliph al-Muqtadi and Mah-i Mulk is consummated. This marriage strengthens the political relation of Malik-Shah I and the Caliph.
By topic
Religion May 9 – The relics of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of seafarers, are stolen by Italian sailors from his church in Myra (modern Turkey) and transported to Bari in southern Italy. September 16 – Pope Victor III dies after a 1-year pontificate at Monte Cassino. He is buried in the abbey's chapter house.
Births September 13 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143) Ibn Quzman, Andalusian poet and writer (approximate date) Reginald III (or Renaud), count of Burgundy (approximate date) Theoderich van Are (or Dietrich), German nobleman (d. 1126)
Deaths June 9 – Otto I ("the Fair"), prince of Olomouc (b. 1045) June 27 – Henry the Long, margrave of the Nordmark September 9 – William the Conqueror, king of England September 16 – Victor III, pope of the Catholic Church September 25 – Simon I, French nobleman (b. 1025) November 12 – William I of Burgundy, French nobleman (b. 1020) December 13 – Maria Dobroniega, duchess of Poland December 27 – Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051) Abu Bakr ibn Umar, military leader of the Almoravids Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Arab astrologer (b. 1029) Arnold of Soissons (or Arnoul), French bishop (b. 1040) Asma bint Shihab, queen and co-regent of Yemen Blot-Sweyn, king of Svealand (approximate date) Eustace II of Boulogne (approximate date) Leo Diogenes, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1069) Solomon (or Salomon), king of Hungary (b. 1053) Yaropolk Izyaslavich, prince of Turov and Volhyn
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