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AD 1085Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Song shi basic annals record that on a wuxu day in the third lunar month of Yuanfeng 8 (AD 1085) the emperor (Shenzong, 神宗, whose annals these are) died in the Funing Hall (福寧殿) aged thirty-eight; the heir apparent took the imperial throne; the Empress Dowager was honoured as Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress as Empress Dowager and the Virtuous Consort née Zhu (朱氏) as Imperial Consort Dowager; and the Grand Empress Dowager was provisionally (權) to share in managing military and state affairs.
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 age is as the annals give it (by Chinese reckoning). An entry earlier the same month (given as context) names the heir apparent as Yong (傭), Prince of the Commandery of Yan'an (延安郡王), given the name Xu (煦); other chapters were not inspected for this record.
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AD 1085Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1085 that after a large meeting and deep consultation with his council about how the land was occupied, the king sent his men into each shire of England, commissioning them to find out how many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land and stock the king himself had there, and what dues he ought to have from the shire each year.
Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through the 19th-century English translation of Ingram/Giles (Old English not checked); this records what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. The passage follows the king's midwinter court at Gloucester, so the commission may belong to the turn of 1085/1086 by modern reckoning. The Chronicle passage itself does not name the resulting record; the translator's note 110 (attached to a passage under 1087) calls that later passage "an evident allusion to the compilation of Doomsday book, already described in A.D. 1085", which is the translator's identification, not the Chronicle's words.
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