Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century
Decades: 1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s 1070s - 1080s - 1090s 1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s
Years: 1076 1077 1078 1079 1080 - 1081 - 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086
Events
- Corfu taken from Byzantine empire by Robert Guiscard, Norman King of Southern Italy
- End of Middle Byzantine period and beginning of Komnenian[?] dynasty, beginning with Alexios I[?]
Births
Deaths
- Saint Bernard of Montjoux[?] (or Menthon), patron saint of mountaineers.
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
081 181 101 108 0181 1801 1018 108 11081 10081 10881 10811 ~081 q081 2081 q081 1981 1o81 1p81 1-81 1p81 1071 10u1 10i1 1091 10i1 108~ 108q 1082 108q 1081sShe herself it is! Aurelia, speak,--are you not dead? AURELIA. [Kneels before him.] Live that I may lean my bosom on your breast and die. CATILINE. Oh, you live! AURELIA. I did but swoon; though my two eyes grew blurred, And my love a spouse's strength again unto me gave;-- We must part. Revenge compels me with a hollow cry. I must cross the river Lethe down into the night. [The day dawns in the background.] AURELIA. [Points toward the increasing light.] See, the storm-clouds vanish; faintly gleams the morning star. AURELIA. [With uplifted arms.] Follow me, then! Death already speeds me on his way. [She sinks down over him.] CATILINE. [Presses her to himself and speaks with his last How the darkness was dispersed before a radiant beam, Ah, my eye grows dim, my strength is fading fast away; All the wanderings of my life loom plainly up within. But my death is like the morning's rosy-tinted haze. [Bends over her.] CATILINE. I shall seek with you the dwelling place of light and rest! CATILINE. [He tears the dagger quickly out of his breast and The gods of dawn are smiling in atonement from above; into the background and disappears at last among the trees. .