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 WILLIAM (I, the Conqueror, King of England 1066-1087)
1080 Ripon monastery destroyed by Normans
  Hereford Cathedral new building
  Colchester castle begun
  Construction of Lewes Castles
  Canute the Saint becomes King of Denmark
  Clement III becomes the Antipope
1081 Accession of Alexius Comnenus
  William tours south Wales
  Cardiff Castle construction
1083 Ely Cathedral building begins
  Odo imprisoned
1084 Worcester Cathedral building begins
1085 Toledo recaptured from the Moors
 Dec 25 Domesday Book
1086 The Spanish are defeated at Zallaca
  Stormy weather and disease
  Oluf I Hunger becomes King of Denmark
  Victor III becomes Pope
 Aug 1 Oath of Salisbury
1087 St. Paul's Cathedral Burns down
  William Rufus gives Manor of Tewkesbury
  Castle Acre Priory founded
 Sep 9 William the Conqueror Dies
 Sep 26 William II (Rufus) crowned at Westminster

 WILLIAM (II, Rufus, King of England 1087-1100)
Other Key People 
 Comnenus, Alexius (Byzantine Emperor)
 Tewdwr, Rhys ap
 Odo (Bishop of Bayeux)
 Wulfstan (Bishop of Worcester)
 Lanfranc (Archbishop of Canterbury 1070-89)
 Urban (II, Pope)
 Robert (II, Duke of Normandy 1087-1106)
 Robert (of Belleme, Earl of Shrewsbury)
Episodes 
 Norman Conquest
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1080 Construction of Lewes Castles
  Colchester castle begun
1081 Cardiff Castle construction
  William tours south Wales
1085 Dec 25 Domesday Book
1086 Aug 1 Oath of Salisbury
Religious Building Construction 
1080 Hereford Cathedral new building
1083 Ely Cathedral building begins
1084 Worcester Cathedral building begins
1087 St. Paul's Cathedral Burns down
  Castle Acre Priory founded
1089 Serlo builds the crypt at Gloucester
Military Building Construction 
1080 Colchester castle begun
  Construction of Lewes Castles
1081 Cardiff Castle construction
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