1061

Events

* January — Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished from Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
* The Normans conquer Messina in Sicily.
* October 1 — Pope Alexander II succeeds Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
* Erection of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
* Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
* Most of West Frisia (later known as Holland) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
* Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.
* Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.

Births

Deaths

* January 28 — Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
* July 18 (or July 27) — Pope Nicholas II