1090
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Events

• Granada is captured by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravids.
• Troubadours begin playing in Provence.
• Bejaia becomes the capital of the Hammadid Dynasty in Algeria.
• Song Dynasty Chinese author Qin Guan writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

Births

• William of Malmesbury
• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153)
• Saint Famianus
• Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz
• Qin Hui, Chinese Song Dynasty Prime Minister (d. 1155)

Deaths

• Saint Malcoldia of Asti
• Saint Adalbero