1106
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Events

• February 2 — Great Comet of 1106 first sighted.[1]
• September 28 — Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes Castle; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.

Undated

• Balaguer, Spain, is captured from the Moors by the count of Urgell.
• Boleslaus III of Poland begins a war against his brother Zbigniew for control of Poland.

Births

• April 12 — Rikissa of Poland, queen in Sweden and grand princess of Minsk
• Pope Celestine III (approximate date; d. 1198)
• Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese leader of the Minamoto armies in the Genpei War (d. 1180)

Deaths

• August 7 — Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
• August 23 — Magnus, Duke of Saxony
• Robert Malet, English baron
• Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Syrian jurist and philologist
• Yusuf ibn Tashfin, ruler of Spain and North Africa