High Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1093
Construction of Durham Cathedral begins
1093
On a rocky Wear peninsula, the Norman bishop William of St-Calais laid the foundations of a new cathedral to house the relics of St. Cuthbert. Its ribbed vault, erected over the next forty years, was the boldest structural experiment in Romanesque Europe and a forerunner of Gothic engineering across the continent.
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- Malcolm III of Scotland killed · Europe · War
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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