British Isles: Death of Tostig Godwinson. With help from Olaf III of Norway Tostig's first son Skuli the Ruthless liquidates his three rival cousins, Godwin, Edmund and Magnus, the sons of Harold II, who were secretly supported by William the Conqueror, and secures the throne of Northumbria. Southern Europe: Ragusa/Dubrovnik escapes both Byzantine tutelage and Venetian influence and is set up as another independent sea-trading republic. Middle East: Baghdad finally falls to the Seljuks; their empire now stretches from eastern Anatolia and central Iraq to Central Asia and SW Persia. 1081-1084