♀ Margaret Of Scotland

1045 - 1093

 

Saint Margaret, Queen Margaret of Scotland, Margaret of Wessex

Margaret Of Scotland
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Parents
Edward Aethling
Edward Aethling
1016 - 1057
Agatha Arpad
Agatha Arpad
1030 - 1070
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Children
Matilda Of Scotland
Matilda Of Scotland
1079 - 1118

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
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.

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