What is 1054?
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Year nav|1054}} {{Year in various calendars|1054}} {{Year article header|1054}} [[File:William+Henry 2.jpg|thumb|alt=William the Bastard. |William the Bastard.]] == Events == * Chinese astronomers see a [[supernova]] being created in the [[Crab nebula|Crab Nebula]] <ref> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_567.html</ref> * February &ndash; [[Battle of Mortemer]]: The Normans defeat a French army as it is caught stealing. [[Henry I of France|King Henry I]] of France removes his main army from [[Normandy]] as a result. * [[April 30]] &ndash; Rosdalla, [[Kilbeggan]] Ireland: Earliest known European tornado. * [[July 4]] &ndash; The [[SN 1054]] [[supernova]] is seen by the [[China|Chinese]], [[Arab people|Arab]] and possibly [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] near the star ζ [[Taurus (constellation)|Tauri]]. For 23 days it remains bright enough to be seen in daylight. Whats left of it form the [[Crab nebula|Crab Nebula]] (NGC 1952).<ref>Journal of Astronomy, part 9, chapter 56 of ''Sung History (Sung Shih)'' first printing, 1340. facsimile on the frontispiece of Misner, Thorne, Wheeler ''Gravitation'', 1973.</ref> * [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Cardinal Humbertus]], a representative of [[List of popes|Pope Leo IX]], and [[Michael Cerularius]], [[Patriarch]] of [[Constantinople]], decree each other [[excommunication]]. Most historians look to this act as the final step in the initiation of the [[East-West Schism|Great Schism]] between the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] [[Christian Church|Churches]]. In 1965, those excommunications are cancelled by [[Pope]] [[Paul VI]] and Patriarch [[Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople|Athenagoras]] when they meet in the [[Second Vatican Council]]. However, to this day each church claims to be the [[Christian Church|One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church]] and each denies the other's right to that name. (See [[East-West Schism]]) * [[July 27]] &ndash