Events May — The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto. October — The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto. The compilation of the New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu. Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea). Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as w… (More on 1060)