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AD 1100Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Song shi basic annals record that in the first lunar month of Yuanfu 3 (AD 1100), on the jimao day, the emperor died; the empress dowager announced the testamentary decree and established his younger brother, the Prince of Duan (端王), who took the throne before the coffin, and the empress dowager provisionally shared in deciding 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. This is the closing entry of the Zhezong annals (juan 18); juan 19 (Huizong annals) gives a longer account of the same day, including a dispute over the succession, which is not part of this record.
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AD 1100Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1100 that on the morning after Lammas day King William was shot while hunting, by an arrow from his own men, and was afterwards brought to Winchester and buried in the cathedral.
Limits: A monastic chronicle known here through the 19th-century Ingram/Giles English translation; the Old English text was not checked. The record is what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. The Chronicle does not name who shot the arrow or say whether it was deliberate.
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