Other Considerations

1100 to 1109
Henry I is crowned king of England in 1100

In 1101 Henry I of England introduced a measure of length equal to the length of his arm ­ the yard

Italians learn to distill wine to make brandy

1150 to 1159
The Chinese develop the first rockets

1160 to 1169
Oxford University is founded in England in 1167 or 1168, although there may have been lectures at Oxford as early as 1133

Scholar Robert Grosseteste b Stradbroke, Suffolk, England; the teacher of Roger Bacon, he arranges to have Aristotle translated from the original Greek and also experiments with mirrors and lenses in an effort to understand light and such phenomena as the rainbow

The University of Paris (France) is founded as a definite entity before 1170, although its seeds go back to the early 1100s