1031 Germany acquires Lusatia.

1032 Germany acquires Burgundy.

1040 Sons of Tancred d'Hauteville sieze Melfi castle, between Lombard and Byzantine lands in Italy.

1050 For saving Sardinia from the Emir of Denia, the Pope and Emperor entrust the island to Pisa's protection.

1054 Yaroslav of Novgorod dies, leaving his sons separate principalities that are acquired like musical chairs.

1060s The Almoravids, coming from the Sahara, establish a camp at Marrakesh in 1060, and over the next ten years pursue the conquest of an early Morocco. The Seljuk turks arrive from the east and take over muslim Transcaucasia in the 1060s. Robert Guiscard d'Hauteville begins to reduce the Byzantine province in southern Italy.

1065 Ferdinand of Castille dies, and the kingdom of Leon & Castille is split in Galicia, Leon and Castille kingdoms.

1066 William, Duke of Normandy, conquers England.

1070sThe Seljuks take in northern Syria and the Hejaz.

1071 Robert d'Hauteville brings southern Italy under his control, to be known as the Duchy of Apulia. Gaeta and Capua have fallen to another Norman.

by 1071 After initial advances in Armenia and Edessa, the Byzantines lose in their defense of Armenia against the Seljuks at Manzikert, and their army dissolves.