al-Biruni (In Our Time)
1030 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Central Asian polymath al-Biruni and his eleventh-century book the India. Born in around 973 in the central Asian region of Chorasmia, al-Biruni became an itinerant scholar of immense learning, a master of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and many languages. He corresponded with the age's greatest scientist, Avicenna, and made significant contributions to many fields of knowledge.
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Around 1030
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- East–West Schism (1054)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
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- Battle of Manzikert (1071)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- Investiture Controversy (1076)