Inowroclaw

City · 1120 CE · in Europe

Capital of Duchy of Kuyavia (1188–1205).

Huining (1124–1173 CE): Capital of Great Jin (1126–1153).
Rostov Veliky (c. 1125 CE): Capital of Principality of Rostov-Suzdal (1125–1240), Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal (1294–1389).
Troyes (c. 1125 CE): Capital of County of Champagne (1125–1200).
Santiago de Compostela (c. 1111 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Galicia (1111–1125).
Tripoli (c. 1111 CE): Capital of County of Tripoli (1111–1289).
Minsk (c. 1111 CE): Capital of Principality of Minsk (1111–1313), Republic of Belarus (1992–today).
Halebidu (c. 1111 CE): Capital of Hoysala Kingdom (1111–1343).
Plock (c. 1139 CE): Capital of Duchy of Masovia (1139–1351).
Guimarães (c. 1139 CE): Capital of County of Portugal (1139–1143).
Sandomierz (c. 1139 CE): Capital of Duchy of Sandomierz (1139–1304).

Around the same time and place

Council of Clermont (1095 CE): Pope Urban II called on Western Christians to aid Byzantium and take Jerusalem, launching the First Crusade.
William the Conqueror (c. 1028 CE – 1087 CE): Duke of Normandy who conquered England in 1066 and became its first Norman king.
University of Oxford (c. 1096 CE): Teaching existed at Oxford by 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It grew rapidly after Henry II barred English students from the University of Paris in 1167.
University of Paris (c. 1150 CE): Emerging around 1150 from the schools of Notre-Dame, the University of Paris became a leading centre of theology and philosophy in medieval Europe. Its college of the Sorbonne, founded in 1257, gave the university its popular name.
Notre-Dame de Paris (1163 CE): Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163, famous for its flying buttresses, rose windows and sculpture.
Trier (16 BCE – 1618 CE): Capital of Electorate of Trier (1333–1618).
Varangians to the Greeks (c. 800–1100 CE): Scandinavian traders and warriors travelled from the Baltic up the Neva and Volkhov past Novgorod, portaged to the Dnieper and sailed down past Kiev to the Black Sea and Constantinople.
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1070 CE): Embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long depicting the events leading up to and including the Norman conquest of England.