Several of its greatest poets were capable government officials as well including Ouyang Xiu ( 1007 – 1072 ), Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), and Wang Anshi ( 1021 – 1086 ).

Su Shi's first remote trip of exile ( 1080 – 1086 ) was to Huangzhou, Hubei.

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.

The emperor ordered in 1086 for Su to reconstruct the hun yi, or " armillary clock ", for a new clock-tower in the capital city.

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

The assembly now lost all patience ; Desiderius was seized and dragged to the Church of St. Lucy, where he was forcibly vested in the red cope and given the name of Victor on 24 May 1086.

Their armies entered the Iberian peninsula on several occasions ( 1086, 1088, 1093 ) and defeated King Alfonso at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, but initially their purpose was to unite all the Taifas into a single Almoravid Caliphate.

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

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.

* 1086: compilation of the Domesday Book by order of William I of England ; it was similar to a modern day government census, as it was used by William to thoroughly document all the landholdings within the kingdom that could be properly taxed.

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.

Bromsgrove, along with all the towns in north Worcestershire, was committed to defending the city of Worcester and is recorded to have contributed burgesses to Droitwich in 1086.

The manor of Sutone was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it was rated at eight hides, making it larger than all surrounding villages in terms of cultivated land.

Horncastle is mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, when it was listed as consisting of 41 households, including twenty-nine villagers and twelve smallholders, and had 100 acres of meadow and two mills, all belonging to King William.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Ringwood ( Rincvede ) had been appropriated by the Crown and all but six hides taken into the New Forest.

Quorn was established between 1086 and 1153, and all the land up to Woodhouse had been reclaimed from the forest by 1228.

Even the 1086 judgment did not settle the Steyning versus Bramber dispute once and for all ; it continued for centuries afterwards, exacerbated by the Lord of Bramber founding his own religious establishments in his neighbouring parish.

The Domesday Book ( 1086 ) confirms the population of Fawsley as around 50, but the Knightley family of Fawsley Hall developed the sheep farming at the expense of their peasant tenants, who were all evicted by the turn of the 15th century.

In 1086, after the completion of the Domesday Survey, Salisbury was the scene of a great council, in which all the landholders took oaths of allegiance to the king.

Three other estates in the parish are those of Ower, Stanswood, and Stone, all of which are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and still exist as farms in the south of the parish.

* The Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, lists all territory in Great Britain under Norman control at that time, mostly listing individual manors grouped by county.

Crondall is a village and large civil parish in the north east of Hampshire, England and is all that remains of the old Hundred of Crondall referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Serjeants ( servientes ) are already entered as a distinct class in Domesday Book ( 1086 ), though not in all cases differentiated from the barons, who held by knight-service.

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.

The village has also been mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the book ordered by William the Conqueror to detail all settlements and farms in England for the purpose of tax collection.

Hendon is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but the districts of Barnet, Edgware and Finchley were not referred to possibly because these areas were included in other manors.

Thornhill is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but Anglo-Saxon crosses and other remains indicate that there was a settlement here by the ninth century.

Pudsey occurs in the 1086 Domesday Book as " Podechesaie " and " Podechesai ", but in the early 6th century Pudsey and the neighbourhood appear to have been the centre of the considerable Kingdom of Elmet, which retained its independence for more than 200 years after other more petty kingdoms had been subdued by the Angles.

The Domesday survey indicates that the Calverton of 1086 was held by three parties: the Archbishop of York had one part, as a berewick ( or outlying estate ) of his manor at Blidworth, with a church and priest, and the other two parts were held by Roger of Poitou and the thegn Aelfric of Colwick.

At the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 there were two separate estates in Milford, one held by Aelfric Small, and the other some unpopulated land held by Wulfgar.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Wang Anshi's New Policies Group ( Xin Fa ), also known as the ' Reformers ', were opposed by the ministers in the ' Conservative ' faction led by the historian and Chancellor Sima Guang ( 1019 – 1086 ).

In Norman times a small castle was established at Bossiney, probably before the Domesday Survey of 1086 ; Bossiney and Trevena were established as a borough in 1253 by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall.

There were about 28, 000 of them listed in Domesday Book in 1086, less than had been enumerated for 1066.

The seventeen housecarls loyal to Canute were massacred within the confines of the church on 10 July 1086.

Ingham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 were it has the name of Hincham.

It replaced a structure built in 1749, but that was not the first mill at Hoxne, since a mill is shown on Kirby's map of Suffolk, dated 1736, and two mills are mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, although this probably meant that there were two sets of stones.

Mendham had a mill in 1086, although the present building was constructed in 1807, and was extended in 1871, when a grasshopper beam engine was installed to supplement the water wheel, which only had a fall of, when water levels were low.

A priest, church and mill were recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, which refers to the town as " Ghigesburg ".

At the time of Domesday Book in 1086, parts of the county were considered either to form part of Yorkshire or to be within the separate kingdom of Scotland, having historically been associated with the Kingdom of Strathclyde.

Anston was already established as a settlement by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), when North and South Anston ( Anestan and Litelanstan ) were under the ownership of Roger de Busli.

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 most of the future county remained part of Scotland although some villages in the far south west, which were the possessions of the Earl of Northumbria, were included in the Yorkshire section with the Furness region.

Following the Norman conquest, Runcorn was not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday survey, although surrounding settlements were.

The First Complete Documentation of the Facts behind the Legend, are assuming that a more plausible time-frame would be 1086 – 1108, when there were a lot of antipopes, and the reign of the legitimate popes Victor III, Urban II and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since this city was occupied by Emperor Henry IV, and later sacked by the Normans.

By 1086 Hitchin is described as a Royal Manor in the Domesday Book: the feudal services of Avera and Inward, usually found in the eastern counties, especially Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, were due from the sokemen, but the manor of Hitchin was unique in levying Inward.