Years: 1067 1068 1069 - 1070 - 1071 1072 1073

Decades: 1040s 1050s 1060s - 1070s - 1080s 1090s 1100s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century

For alternate uses, see Number 1070 .

Events

• Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England.
• Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completed Kutadgu Bilig.
• Bergen, Norway founded by king Olav Kyrre.

Births

Deaths

• Baldwin VI of Flanders (b. 1030)