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AD 1066Placed in a yearEast AsiaCulture and knowledge
The Song shi basic annals record that in the tenth lunar month of Zhiping 3 (AD 1066) on the dinghai day an edict ordered that the Ministry of Rites (禮部) hold the examinations (gongju, 貢舉) once every three years.
Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The entry states only the new interval; it does not say what the previous interval was.
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AD 1066Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Song shi basic annals record that in the first lunar month of Zhiping 3 (AD 1066) on the guiyou day the annals enter a notice that the Khitan (契丹) changed the name of their state to Liao (遼).
Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. This is a Song record of a change in a neighbouring state; the day may reflect when the Song court entered it, and the Liao annals and other chapters were not inspected.
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AD 1066Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1066 that Harald, King of Norway, and Earl Tosty had gone from their ships beyond York to a place the translation renders as "Stanfordbridge", that Harold, king of the English, came upon them unawares beyond the bridge, and that after long and very severe fighting Harald the Fair-hair'd, King of Norway, and Earl Tosty were slain with a multitude of people.
Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through a 19th-century English translation (this e-text gives J. Ingram's translation, with excerpts of J. A. Giles's translation collated in by its preparer; the Old English was not checked); this records what this translation of the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. The translator's note 91 (added as context) says that the 'Normans' here are not merely the Norwegians but the Danes and other adventurers from the north, joined with forces of France and Flanders, so the passage's ethnic terms are the translator's rendering. Two passages from J. A. Giles's translation, collated into this e-text in double parentheses under the same year, give parallel accounts of the battle; one of them has 'Northmen' where this passage has 'Normans'.
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