1060
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Events

• May — The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
• October — The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
• The compilation of the New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
• Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
• Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
• Philip I of France begins his reign.

Births

Deaths

• King Andrew I of Hungary (b. 1015)
• August 4 — King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• November 14 — Count Geoffrey II of Anjou
• Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet