1054

Major events of the year 1054 AD:

Events

 * The mutual excommunications between Pope Leo IX and the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, marks the beginning of the Great Schism between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy. The excommunications would last for 911 years, but were rescinded at the Second Vatican Council in 1965,

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