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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 Qingli Reforms, put forth by the Chinese statesmen Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan in 1043, are halted by their conservative ministerial peers, but would later influence reform efforts under Wang Anshi. |
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 • Construction of Durham Cathedral in England begins. |