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1000–1100Europe [sports]‘Tables’, or backgammon, is introduced to Europe by the Arabs (or reintroduced, as it is similar in name and appearance to the Roman game Tabula). It becomes extremely popular over the next few centuries. The name ‘backgammon’ is first used in the mid-17th century.
1047–1080France [legislation]The earliest known code of laws and customs of any French town, the Etablissements de Saint-Quentin, is drawn up. (The original code is lost but is known from a copy of 1151.)
1048Byzantine Empire, Balkans [wars]The Pechenegs, a Turkish tribe settled in the area of modern Ukraine, begin almost continuous plundering raids in the Byzantine Balkan provinces.
18 May 1048Persia [births and deaths]Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, famous for his Rubaiyat, born in Nishapur, Persia (–1131).


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