The entire Chinese Buddhist canon was translated into the Tangut language over a span of 50 years and published around 1090 in about 3700 juan — a remarkable feat, compared to the time it took the Chinese to accomplish the same task.

He is mentioned in Widsith and in Beowulf ; a passage from Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney ( lines 1089 — 1090 ) reads:

Year 1090 ( MXC ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Felicianus and Titianus ( or, less frequently, year 1090 Ab urbe condita ).

Su Song's greatest project was the 40-foot-tall water-powered astronomical clocktower constructed in Kaifeng, the wooden pilot model completed in 1088, the bronze components cast by 1090, while the wholly finished work was completed by 1094 during the reign of Emperor Zhezong of Song.

By 2015, the NRA planned that there would be approximately 1090 km of motorway in Ireland, comprising the M50 ( 49 km ), M20 ( 90 km approx ), M18 ( 70 km approx ), M17 ( 25. 5 km ), M11 ( 62 km ), M9 ( 116. 5 km ), M8 ( 143 km ), M7 ( 185 km ), M6 ( 144 km ), M4 ( 62 km ), M3 ( 57 km ), M2 ( 13 km ), and M1 ( 83 km ).

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist ( 1090 – August 20, 1153 ) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.

This came to an end when the island was briefly held ( 1090 – 97 ) by Tzachas, a Turkish bey in the region of Smyrna during the first expansion of the Turks to the Aegean coast.

Malta was occupied by the Fatimids, who exerted 220 years of linguistic influence, from 870 to 1090 CE.

Around 1090, Matilda married again, to Welf V of Bavaria, from a family ( the Welfs ) whose very name was later to become synonymous with alliance to the popes in their conflict with the German emperors ( see Guelphs and Ghibellines ).

Malta was occupied by the Fatimids, who exerted 220 years of influence ( from 870 to 1090 CE / AD ) on the existing civilization.

This was commenced between 1042 and 1052 as a royal burial church, consecrated on 28 December 1065, completed after his death in about 1090, and demolished in 1245 to make way for Henry III's new building, which still stands.

It was not completed until around 1090 but was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death on 5 January 1066.

The Normans conquered the Arabs throughout Sicily between 1060 and 1090, and repopulated the island once their rule was secure.

The dispute was only ended in 1090 when the current Archbishop of Köln, Hermann III, ruled in favor of the monastery of Brauweiler.

Serving initially in the household of Duke Władysław I Herman of Poland, he entered the service of the Emperor Henry IV in 1090 and was appointed Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1101.

Between about 1090 and 1120, the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was built inside the walls, and by 1130 the Great Tower was added to form the gatehouse.

Władysław did make attempts to regain the control of Pomerania, and through numerous expeditions was temporarily ( 1090 – 1091 ) able to do so.

Agnes I ( born c. 1090 ; died 29 December 1125 in Quedlinburg ) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.

His son Berthold II, who like his father fought against Henry IV, inherited a lot of the lands of Rudolf's son Count Berthold of Rheinfelden in 1090 ( though not his comital title, that stayed with the family von Wetter-Rheinfelden ) and in 1092 was elected Duke of Swabia against Frederick I of Hohenstaufen.

XERB was the original call sign for the border blaster station in Rosarito Beach Mexico, which was branded as The Mighty 1090 in Hollywood, California.

Girard's father was the first to carry the title, being called princeps Blaviensis as early as 1090.

Starting in about 1090, Harold's building was demolished and a new church with crossing tower and transepts was begun in the Norman style.

* Rashi's oldest daughter, Yocheved, married Meir ben Shmuel ; their four sons were: Shmuel ( Rashbam ) ( b. 1080 ), Yitzchak ( Rivam ) ( b. 1090 ), Jacob ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( b. 1100 ), and Shlomo the Grammarian, who were among the most prolific of the Baalei Tosafos, leading rabbinic authorities who wrote critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud which appear opposite Rashi's commentary on every page of the Talmud.

In 1087 he commanded the Byzantine right wing in the Battle of Dristra against the Pechenegs, and in 1090 he defeated a small force of 300 Pechenegs while leading the Archontopouloi tagma against them.

In 1090 the Pechenegs invaded Thrace again, while Tzachas, the brother-in-law of the Sultan of Rum, launched a fleet and attempted to arrange a joint siege of Constantinople with the Pechenegs.

As early as 1090, Alexios had taken reconciliatory measures towards the Papacy, with the intention of seeking western support against the Seljuqs.

He returned to Iberia in 1090, avowedly for the purpose of annexing the taifa states of Iberia.

Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ), in a 1700 painting by Georg Andreas Wasshuber ( 1650 – 1732 ) on display at Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

Of the single family homes 1090 were built before 1919, while 65 were built between 1990 and 2000.

In 1090 – 91, the nomadic Pechenegs reached the walls of Constantinople, where Emperor Alexius I with the aid of the Kipchaks annihilated their army.

Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform one or another type of calculations include the planisphere and other mechanical computing devices invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( c. AD 1000 ); the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c. AD 1015 ); the astronomical analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers ; and the astronomical clock tower of Su Song ( c. AD 1090 ) during the Song Dynasty.

# Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, b. 1090.

# Juliane de Fontrevault ( born c. 1090 ); married Eustace de Pacy in 1103.

The MAC-10 had a 1145 round-per-minute rate of fire ( with. 45 ACP ) and a 1090 round-per-minute rate of fire with 9mm cartridges.

In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Revolts broke out during the 9-year reign of his son, Rimush ( 2278 – 2270 BC ), who fought hard to retain the empire — and in the fifteen year reign of Rimush's elder brother, Manishtushu ( 2269 – 2255 BC ).

However, according to Xenophon, Polydorus was murdered by his brother Polyphron, who was, in turn, murdered by his nephew Alexander — son of Jason, in 369 BC.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens — after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC on both sides of the family, excluding the children of Athenian men and foreign women.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Nineveh — where Jonah preached — was the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, which fell to the Medes in 612 BC.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

In 500 BC, Hou Fan — the governor of Hou — revolted against his lord of the Shu family.

In addition, Pausanias relates that at the time of the Persian invasion in 480 BC the Athenians were advised by the oracle to put their faith in their " wooden walls " — taking this advice to mean their navy, they won the famous battle at Salamis.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

Greeks in the late fifth and early 4th centuries BC considered their oldest poets to be Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod and Homer — in that order.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

* 1953 BC Bobcat — Prototype