1011

Year 1011 (MXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian Calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1011 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1011
MXI
Ab urbe condita1764
Armenian calendar460
ԹՎ ՆԿ
Assyrian calendar5761
Balinese saka calendar932–933
Bengali calendar418
Berber calendar1961
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1555
Burmese calendar373
Byzantine calendar6519–6520
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3707 or 3647
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3708 or 3648
Coptic calendar727–728
Discordian calendar2177
Ethiopian calendar1003–1004
Hebrew calendar4771–4772
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1067–1068
 - Shaka Samvat932–933
 - Kali Yuga4111–4112
Holocene calendar11011
Igbo calendar11–12
Iranian calendar389–390
Islamic calendar401–402
Japanese calendarKankō 8
(寛弘8年)
Javanese calendar913–914
Julian calendar1011
MXI
Korean calendar3344
Minguo calendar901 before ROC
民前901年
Nanakshahi calendar−457
Seleucid era1322/1323 AG
Thai solar calendar1553–1554
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1137 or 756 or −16
     to 
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1138 or 757 or −15
Emperor Sanjō of Japan (976–1017)

Events

Europe

  • June 11 Lombard Revolt: Mahmoud the Fat of Bari rises up against the Lombard rebels, led by Melus, and delivers the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy. Melus is forced to flee to Salerno, and his brother-in-law Dattus escapes to Monte Cassino, but their families are taken captive, and carted off to Constantinople.[1]
  • Autumn Basil Mesardonites visits Guaimar III of Salerno to secure his cooperation. Melus is forced to flee again. Basil proceeds to Monte Cassino – and persuades Abbot Atenulf to expel Dattus. Pope Sergius IV support Dattus with papal troops to garrison the tower on the Garigliano River, a fortified complex in the territory of the Duchy of Gaeta.
  • King Henry II enfeoffs Adalbero with Carinthia (including the rule over the March of Verona) after the death of Duke Conrad I
  • The Grand Prince of Kyiv and ruler of Kievan Rus' Vladimir the Great laid the first foundations of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.

England

  • September 29 Siege of Canterbury: Danish Viking raiders led by Thorkell the Tall pillage Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.[2]
  • Byrhtferth, Benedictine monk of Ramsey Abbey, writes his Manual (Enchiridion) on the divine order of the universe and time.[2]

Middle East

  • Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), an Arab scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness for fear of angering Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and is kept under house arrest. During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.
  • Baghdad Manifesto is ordered by Caliph Al-Qadir of the Abbasid Caliphate in response to the growth of the Fatimid-supporting Ismaili sect of Islam within his borders.

Asia

  • Emperor Ichijō abdicates the throne and dies later after a 25-year reign. He is succeeded by his cousin Sanjō as the 67th emperor of Japan.

Births

Deaths

  • February 9 Bernard I, German nobleman
  • February 23 Willigis, archbishop of Mainz
  • July 25 Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 980)
  • November 5 Mathilde, German abbess (b. 949)
  • November 21 Reizei, emperor of Japan (b. 950)
  • Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ustadh-Hurmuz, Buyid general
  • Albert I, count of Namur (approximate date)
  • Anna Porphyrogenita, Grand Princess of Kiev
  • Boniface, Italian nobleman (approximate date)
  • Conrad I, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)
  • Mahendradatta, queen of Bali (b. 961)
  • Muhammad ibn Suri, Ghurid ruler (malik)
  • Sumbat III, Georgian prince of Tao-Klarjeti
  • Uma no Naishi, Japanese waka poet (b. 949)

References

Sources

  • Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South 1016–1130. Longmans. ISBN 978-0582107519.
  • Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.
  • Toumanoff, C. (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History. Washington D. C.: Georgetown University Press. p. 498. OCLC 901879629.
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