1079

Decades: 1120s 1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s - 1070s - 1080s 1090s 1100s 1110s 1120s

Years: 1074 1075 1076 1077 1078 - 1079 - 1080 1081 1082 1083 1084

• Halsten and Ingold I succeed Haakon the Red in Sweden.
• Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
• William I of England establishes the New Forest.
• Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos.
• Abbess Hildegarde of St. Ruprechtsberg makes the first surviving reference to the use of hops in brewing. (or 1067?)

• Pierre Abélard, scholastic philosopher
• Emperor Horikawa of Japan
• Kilij Arslan I

• Alice, daughter of Hugh Capet of France
• Adáele (Alix), daughter of Robert II of France