1079

Events

 * astronomer,, computed the length of the year as 365.24219858156 days which has been the most accurate calculation of old times. Khayyam also, in Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produced a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions.
 * Murder of Saint (pol. Stanisław ze Szczepanowa) by Polish King
 * and succeed  in.
 * succeeds in.
 * establishes the.
 * founds a in.
 * Abbess makes the first surviving reference to the use of  in . (or ? — Hildegard of Bingen/Rupertsberg lived 1098–1179. The reference attributed to her cannot be 1067.)

Births

 * — of Japan (d. )
 * , French scholastic philosopher (d. )

Deaths

 * —, bishop of