* 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.

( See: Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III 912 ; the Granada massacre 1066 ).

* 1066: the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and many others are killed in the 1066 Granada massacre.

The 11th century, however, saw several Muslim pogroms against Jews ; notably those that occurred in Cordoba in 1011 and in Granada in 1066.

; 1066: 1066 Granada massacre

Some of the most important events constituting this history include the 1066 Granada massacre, the Persecution of Jews in the First Crusade ( by Catholics but against papal orders, see also: Sicut Judaeis ), the Alhambra Decree after the Reconquista and the creation of the Spanish Inquisition, the publication of On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther which initiated the Protestant antisemitism and strengthened German antisemitism, the pogroms and the Holocaust.

As part of this repression there were pogroms against Jews in Cordova in 1011 and in Granada in 1066.

Some scholars give the start of the Golden Age as either 711 – 718 ( after the Muslim conquest of Iberia ) or 912 ( the rule of Abd-ar-Rahman III ) and the end of the Golden Age variously as 1031 ( when the Caliphate of Cordoba ended ), 1066 ( the date of the Granada massacre ), 1090 ( when the Almoravides invaded ), or the mid-12th century ( when the Almohades invaded ).

The first major persecution was the 1066 Granada massacre, which occurred on December 30, when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, crucified Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Jewish population of the city.

This was also the chief motivation behind the 1066 Granada massacre, when " ore than 1, 500 Jewish families, numbering 4, 000 persons, fell in one day ", and in Fez in 1033, when 6, 000 Jews were killed.

Examples include the 1066 Granada massacre, the razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalucian city of Granada.

He was murdered in the Granada massacre of 1066 together with about 4, 000 other Granada Jews.

Some Muslims accused Joseph of using his office to benefit Jewish friends, assassinated him, and launched a massacre of Granada's Jews the next day ( December 31, 1066 ).

Several British humour classics were first serialised in Punch, such as the Diary of a Nobody and 1066 and All That.

William I ( Old Norman: Williame I ; circa 1028 – 9 September 1087 ), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes as William the Bastard ( Guillaume le Bâtard ), was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

* Under Edward III, English begins to replace French as England's official national language, when Parliament is addressed in it for the first time following the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Although the first mention of the town appears in archives from the year 1066, some archeological digs seem to show the area as inhabited by as early as 2000 BC, most notably in the modern-day quartiers of Fives, Wazemmes, and Old Lille.

The two dates that are referenced in the book are 1066, the date of the Battle of Hastings and the Norman invasion of Britain ( Chapter XI ) and 55 BC, the date of the first Roman invasion of Britain under Julius Caesar ( Chapter I ).

Although he was crowned king at the age of seven, until age fourteen ( 1066 ) his mother acted as regent, the first queen of France ever to do so.

The Normans had first developed castles in the 10th and 11th centuries, and their occupation of England after 1066 had made extensive use of them.

Work first started on the construction of the castle in 1066.

William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in 1066 and one of his first actions after landing was to build Hastings Castle to protect his supply routes.

In 1066 Lanfranc became the first abbot of St Stephen's at Caen, a house which the duke had supposedly been enjoined to found as a penance for his disobedience to the Holy See.

Alken appeared for the first time in history in 1066 under the name Alleche.

Huy was the recipient of the first historically known charter north of the Alps, confirming it as a city in 1066.

The seat of the church ( now known as the Catholicossate of the Great House of Cilicia ) was first established in Sivas ( AD 1058 ) moving to Tavbloor ( 1062 ), then to Dzamendav ( 1066 ), Dzovk ( 1116 ), Hromgla ( 1149 ), and finally to Sis ( 1293 ), then-capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

William of Poitiers presents a detailed picture of Norman France prior to 1066, as the first part of the history narrates the various rebellions William faced in his early reign.

In early 1066, Robert was present at both the first council, that of William's inner circle, and the second larger council held to discuss the Duke's planned conquest of England.

Polecats are not mentioned in Anglo-Saxon or Welsh literature prior to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, with the first recorded mention of the species in the Welsh language occurring in the 14th century's Llyfr Coch Hergest and in English in Chaucer ’ s The Pardoner ’ s Tale ( 1383 ).

Since it is known that Eilmer was an " old man " in 1066, and that he had made the flight attempt " in his youth ", the event is placed some time during the early 11th century, perhaps in its first decade.

It was mentioned for the first time under its present name in 1066 in a Charter of the Croatian King Petar Krešimir IV and, for a period of time, it was a seat of this Croatian King.

David I established the first burghs in Scotland, initially only in Middle-English-speaking Lothian ( note: Tain claims a charter dating from 1066 under Malcolm III ).

Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making Tain Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh, an event commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

In 1066 Edward the Confessor died without an heir ; in the first scene of the Bayeux Tapestry he is depicted enthroned and wearing a crown.

The first Norman monarch, William I " The Conqueror ", was crowned on the day he became King25 December 1066.

The first part of 1066 and All That appeared in Punch on 10 September 1930, taking its title from Robert Graves ' autobiography Good-Bye to All That.

It was a large manor assessed as having 15 hides before 1066.

William built a large fleet and invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066.

Eadmer left a large number of writings, the most important of which is his Historia novorum in Anglia, a work which deals mainly with the history of England between 1066 and 1122.

A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and remained as the second largest Crown forest in England, the largest being New Forest.

They had a large family together, of whom five sons became earls at one time or another, three remaining earls in 1066:

This pattern of land-holding was the natural product of William the Conqueror claiming an allodial title to all the land of England following the Norman Conquest of 1066 and parcelling it out as large fees in the form of feudal baronies to his followers, who then in turn subinfeudated the lands comprising their baronies into manors to be held from them by their own followers and knights.

Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norman Conquest of a large Anglo-Saxon nation-state whose sophisticated art was influential in much of northern Europe.