In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings.

During the compilation of the Domesday Book in 1086, the settlement of Torentún is recorded, along with the settlement of Homer Green, which far outdates any claim that Ince Blundell is the oldest village in Sefton.

Although earlier remains, such as Roman coins and pottery, have been found in the area, the current settlement dates from after the Domesday Books compilation in 1086.

The lands of the Bletchley Park estate were formerly part of the Manor of Eaton, included in the Domesday Book in 1086.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

The Domesday Book was undertaken in 1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered in medieval Europe.

The Domesday Book of 1086 in England contained listings of households but its coverage was not complete and its intent was not the same as modern censuses.

Emsworth was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

Around 500 people lived in the town in 1086 ( at the time of the Domesday Book ).

The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

Its existence was first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book.

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Likewise, The Nags Head, Burntwood only dates back to the 16th century, but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1086, as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

In Domesday ( 1086 ) the city of York was divided into shires.

At the time of the Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, nearly 10 % of the English population were slaves.

In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.

A cognate name also existed in Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), in the name of the village Woolland in Dorset, England: this was written " Winlande " in the 1086 Domesday Book, and it is interpreted as ' meadow land ' or ' pasture land '.

* 1086 – The Domesday Book is initiated by William I of England.

* 1274 – The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1275.

* 1279 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1280.

* 1280 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed ; it began in 1279.

This allowed for the creation of a monastery or minstre in the area, and the earliest written form of the name Kidderminster ( Chedeminstre ) was not seen until it appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086.

* The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is finished ; it began in 1274.

* The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1275.

* A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086 ; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys in 1274 / 1275 and 1279 / 1280.

* The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1280.

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

After the Christian defeat at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, El Cid was recalled to service by Alfonso VI, and commanded a combined Christian and Moorish army, which he used to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

In 1086 he required oaths of loyalty to the king by all, even the vassals of his principal vassals, who held by feudal tenure.

Nor were manors held necessarily by lay lords rendering military service ( or again, cash in lieu ) to their superior: a substantial share ( estimated by value at 17 % in England in 1086 ) belonged directly to the king, and a greater proportion ( rather more than a quarter ) were held by bishoprics and monasteries.

Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

Although English and Norman forces remained on alert throughout 1085 and into 1086, the invasion threat was ended by Cnut's death in July 1086.

All the English counties south of the River Tees and River Ribble are included, and the whole work seems to have been mostly completed by 1 August 1086, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William received the results and that all the chief magnates swore the Salisbury Oath, a renewal of their oaths of allegiance.

* The Imam Ali Mosque in Iraq is rebuilt by Malik Shah I in 1086 after it was destroyed by fire.

There were emperors who abdicated and cloistered emperors before and after the Heian period, but the cloistered rule system usually refers to the governing system put in place by Emperor Shirakawa in 1086 and remained in force until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192.

Staines, albeit spelt Stanes, appears in the Middlesex section of the Domesday Book of 1086, as a property held by Westminster Abbey.

The Domesday Book initiated by William I of England in 1086 was a government survey on all the administrative counties of England ; it was used to assess the properties of farmsteads and landholders in order to tax them sufficiently.

In 1086, Alfonso sent Álvar to Valencia in order to place his candidate, al-Qadir, on the throne.

Historian Liu Heping states that Emperor Zhezong of Song sponsored Su Song's clocktower in 1086 in order to compete with the Liao for " scientific and national superiority.

After the order of the emperor, the first imperial examination of a Vietnamese monarch based on Confucian learning was organized in the second month in 1072 with Lê Văn Thịnh becoming the first first-rank laureate in history of imperial examination in Vietnam, afterwards Lê Văn Thịnh was promoted to the position of chancellor in 1086 but was deprived of all titles and banished to a remote region after a controversial treason case in 1096.