1090

Calendar year

Years

Millennium
2nd millennium
Centuries

* 10th century
* 11th century
* 12th century

Decades

* 1070s
* 1080s
* 1090s
* 1100s
* 1110s

Years

* 1087
* 1088
* 1089
* 1090
* 1091
* 1092
* 1093

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1090 by topic

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* Political entities
* State leaders
* Religious leaders

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Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
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1090 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1090
MXC

|

Ab urbe condita| 1843
Armenian calendar| 539
ԹՎ ՇԼԹ
Assyrian calendar| 5840
Balinese saka calendar| 1011–1012
Bengali calendar| 496–497
Berber calendar| 2040
English Regnal year| 3 Will. 2 – 4 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar| 1634
Burmese calendar| 452
Byzantine calendar| 6598–6599
Chinese calendar| 己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3787 or 3580
— to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3788 or 3581
Coptic calendar| 806–807
Discordian calendar| 2256
Ethiopian calendar| 1082–1083
Hebrew calendar| 4850–4851
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1146–1147
\- Shaka Samvat| 1011–1012
\- Kali Yuga| 4190–4191
Holocene calendar| 11090
Igbo calendar| 90–91
Iranian calendar| 468–469
Islamic calendar| 482–483
Japanese calendar| Kanji 4
(寛治４年)
Javanese calendar| 994–995
Julian calendar| 1090
MXC
Korean calendar| 3423
Minguo calendar| 822 before ROC
民前822年
Nanakshahi calendar| −378
Seleucid era| 1401/1402 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1632–1633
Tibetan calendar| ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1216 or 835 or 63
— to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Horse)
1217 or 836 or 64
Hassan-i Sabbah (c. 1050–1124)

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

## Events

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### By place

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#### Europe

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* A third Almoravid expedition is launched in Al-Andalus, designed to finally subdue the Taifa's Kingdoms. The cities of Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Málaga, Almería and Ronda fall to the troops of Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin.[1]
* King Stephen II of Croatia becomes involved in an open conflict between factions of the Croatian nobility, who reassert their traditional rights in their own counties.

#### Seljuk Empire

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* Hassan-i Sabbah founds the Nizari Ismaili state after taking control of the Alamut Castle and organising the military group called the Order of Assassins.[2]

#### Africa

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* Béjaïa (or Bugia) becomes the capital of the Hammadid dynasty in modern-day Algeria. It becomes an important port and centre of culture.

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#### Arts and Culture

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* Troubadours begin playing in western Aquitaine (Poitou and Saintonge) and Gascony (approximate date).

#### Science and Technology

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* Qin Guan, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty, writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

## Births

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* January 17 - Qin Hui, Chinese chancellor (d. 1155)
* unknown dates
* Frederick II ("the One-Eyed"), German nobleman (d. 1147)[3]
* Dōin (Fujiwara no Atsuyori), Japanese waka poet (d. 1179)[4]
* probable
* Adolf III, German count of Berg and Hövel (d. 1152)
* Agnes I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (approximate date)
* Alaungsithu, Burmese king of the Pagan dynasty (d. 1167)
* Arnold of Brescia, Italian canon regular (approximate date)
* Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and theologian (d. 1153)
* Chen Yuyi, Chinese politician of the Song dynasty (d. 1138)
* Eliezer ben Nathan, German rabbi and liturgical poet (d. 1170)
* Eric II ("the Memorable"), king of Denmark (approximate date)
* Fujiwara no Akisuke, Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1155)
* Juliane de Fontevrault, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
* Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen, German nobleman and rector of Burgundy (d. 1152)
* Niklot (or Nyklot), Obotrite prince and tribal chief (d. 1160)
* Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, illegitimate son of King Henry I of England
* Theobald II, Count of Champagne ("the Great"), French nobleman
* Theobald of Bec, Norman churchman, archbishop of Canterbury
* William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset, Anglo-Norman nobleman

## Deaths

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* March 22 - García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)
* April 16 - Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040)
* May 3 - Adelaide of Rheinfelden, queen consort of Hungary[5]
* May 12 - Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman
* May 18 - Berthold of Rheinfelden, German nobleman
* June 26 - Jaromír, Bohemian prince and bishop
* July 3 - Egbert II (or Ekbert), German nobleman
* August 11 - Fujiwara no Atsuie, Japanese nobleman (b. 1033)[6]
* August 13 - Constance of Normandy, duchess of Brittany
* unknown dates
* Abd al-Jalil ibn Wahbun, Moorish poet and writer
* Fayun Faxiu, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (b. 1027)
* Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman nobleman (b. c.10350
* Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter[7]
* St Isaiah of Rostov, Kievan missionary and bishop[8]
* Raynald I, French Benedictine abbot (b. 1059)
* William of Poitiers, French priest and chronicler (b. c.1020)
* probable
* Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer

## References

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1. ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
3. ^ John B. Freed (January 1, 2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press. p. 19\. ISBN 978-0-300-12276-3.
4. ^ McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 146
5. ^ Eleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles. Manchester University Press. January 1, 2013. p. 299\. ISBN 978-1-5261-1282-8.
6. ^ Kanō, higefumi (1983). "Fujiwara no Atsuie" 藤原敦家. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5\. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 267\. OCLC 11917421.
7. ^ Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6 Page 372
8. ^ Alban Butler; Paul Burns (January 1, 1997). Butler's Lives of the Saints. A&C Black. p. 84\. ISBN 978-0-86012-254-8.

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