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World History Timeline - 1040
Scottish ruler Duncan Canmore is slain by his nobles, who invite Macbeth, King of Inverness, to succeed Duncan. Macbeth accepts and rules until 1057.
A naked (and longhaired) Lady Godiva rides through the streets of Coventry in an attempt to persuade her husband, Leofric, earl of Mercia, to stop levying heavy taxes on the population.
Byzantine Emperor Michael IV Paphiagonian dies and is succeeded by his nephew,Michael V Kalaphates (the caulker).
Pi Sheng, a Chinese printer, begins using movable type of hundreds of clay blocks containing Chinese ideograms for printing.
King Hardicanute of England dies, and the son of the now deceased Ethelred the Unready, Edward the Confessor, succeeds to the throne. Edward will be the last of England's Anglo-Saxon Kings.
Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates forces Empress Zoe into a monastery. Constantinople's nobility, however, releases her and shuts him up in a monastery. Zoe marries Constantine IX Monomachus and continues to reign as empress.
King Edward the Confessor of England is crowned on Easter Day.
The Mons and the Burmese put aside their differences and join together to create what will eventually become Burma.
To keep out unwelcome Mongols and Turks, Koreans complete a great wall that spans the northern part of their peninsula.
Magnus I, King of Norway and Denmark, dies. Harald Haardraade, or Harald III, ascends the Norwegian throne. Denmark's new King is Sweyn Estrithson, who will reign as Sweyn II. Harald and Sweyn fight each other for nearly 20 years.
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