title: 1062
text: 
  
  Events 
   Founding of Marrakech by the Almoravid dynasty
   The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal.
   Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict founded in Affligem, Belgium.
  
  Births 
   Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)
  
  Deaths