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She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey , which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names.
1045
| 1045 • The Lingxiao Pagoda of China is built during the Song Dynasty. |
1079
Age: 34y
birth of childMatilda Of Scotland Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1079 • Persian astronomer, Omar Khayyám, computed the length of the year to be exactly 365.24219858156 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. Khayyam also, in Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produced a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions. |
1093
Nov 16
Age: 48y
| 1093 • Henry of Burgundy becomes Count of Portugal through his marriage to Theresa, Countess of Portugal. |