High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Culture
1048
Omar Khayyam born at Nishapur
1048
A tentmaker's son was born in the Khorasan city who would grow up to write quatrains about wine and transience, calculate the length of the solar year with startling accuracy, and solve cubic equations geometrically. His Rubaiyat would not reach the West for eight centuries, via Edward FitzGerald. FitzGerald's loose, lyrical translation became one of the most quoted poems in the English language.
In context
Also in 1048 (3 other events on record)
- Yellow River catastrophically shifts course again · East Asia · Disaster
- Zirids of Ifriqiya break with Fatimids · Africa · Politics
- Anawrahta receives Theravada scriptures from Mon kingdom · Southeast Asia · Religion
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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