1091 A tempest which destroyed 500 houses. Great part of London consumed by fire.
1092 Malcolm, king of Scotland, killed at Alnwick, by the Earl of Northumberland.
1094 Man and beast destroyed by a great mortality.
1095 Peter the hermit preached up a crusade to the Holy Land.
1096 The Christian princes raised 700,000 men, and began the holy war. The first single combat for deciding disputes between the nobility.
1097 The Voyage for the Holy War, was first undertaken. Being a contrivance of Pope Urban, to compose the divisions of the church, the whole Christian world being then at discord among themselves. This war lasted almost three hundred years.
1098 Tower surrounded with a wall. Westminster Hall built. Its dimensions are 224 feet by 74.
1099 Jerusalem taken by storm, and forty thousand Saracens put to the sword.
1100 Godwin-Sands, the property of Earl Godwin, first overflowed by the sea, destroying four thousand acres of land. King Henry married the lady Maud, daughter of Margaret, late queen of Scots, and niece to Edgar Atheling, descended from Edmund Ironside. The use of fire and candle, after eight o’clock at night restored to the English.
1106 King Henry subdues Normandy, takes Robert prisoner, and orders his eyes to be put out.