Domesday Book completed
August 1, 1086
At Salisbury, William the Conqueror received the completed survey of English land and resources, compiled by royal commissioners in a single year. Down to the last ox and pig, the Domesday Book recorded the Conqueror's kingdom more thoroughly than any government had surveyed its subjects in a thousand years. No comparable census of an entire nation would be undertaken again in Europe until the modern era.
In context
Also in 1086 (3 other events on record)
- Battle of Sagrajas · Europe · War
- Almoravids Cross the Strait and Enter al-Andalus · Africa · War
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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