1024
Year 1024 (MXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1024 MXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1777 |
| Armenian calendar | 473 ԹՎ ՆՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5774 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 945–946 |
| Bengali calendar | 431 |
| Berber calendar | 1974 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1568 |
| Burmese calendar | 386 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6532–6533 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3720 or 3660 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3721 or 3661 |
| Coptic calendar | 740–741 |
| Discordian calendar | 2190 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1016–1017 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4784–4785 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1080–1081 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 945–946 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4124–4125 |
| Holocene calendar | 11024 |
| Igbo calendar | 24–25 |
| Iranian calendar | 402–403 |
| Islamic calendar | 414–415 |
| Japanese calendar | Jian 4 / Manju 1 (万寿元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 926–927 |
| Julian calendar | 1024 MXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3357 |
| Minguo calendar | 888 before ROC 民前888年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −444 |
| Seleucid era | 1335/1336 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1566–1567 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1150 or 769 or −3 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1151 or 770 or −2 |
Pope John XIX (r. 1024–1032)
Events
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Basil II prepares a Byzantine expedition to invade Sicily. Governor Ahmed al-Akhal appeals to the Zirids of Ifriqiya for help. They dispatch a fleet, but these are caught up in a storm and destroyed near Pantelleria.
- Battle of Lemnos: Kievan Viking raiders (800 men) sail through the straits at Abydos to the Aegean Sea. From there they make for the island of Lemnos, but are defeated by a Byzantine fleet of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme.[1]
Europe
- July 13 – Emperor Henry II dies in his imperial palace at Göttingen (modern Germany). He leaves no heirs, thereby ending the Ottonian dynasty. The Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire is founded by Conrad II.
- September – Conrad II (the Elder) is elected and crowned as King of Germany in Mainz, while both he and his cousin Conrad the Younger (son of Conrad I, duke of Carinthia) are invested as joint dukes of Franconia.
- Roger I of Tosny, a Norman nobleman, leaves the battlefield of the Ebro Valley after terrorising the Saracens and capturing several towns and castles during the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain).[2]
Asia
- May 13 – Fujiwara no Takako, daughter of influential Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga, is married to Minamoto no Morofusa.
- July 17 – In Japan, the Manju (万寿) era begins.
- Japanese waka poet Daini no Sanmi, lady-in-waiting to dowager Grand Empress Shōshi, is married to Fujiwara no Kanetaka.
- Japanese waka poet Sagami divorces, returns to Kyoto and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Imperial Princess Shushi.
- Murder of the daughter of the late Japanese Emperor Kazan, a lady-in-waiting to Shōshi who orders an investigation.
- The world's first paper-printed money, which later greatly benefits the economy of the Song dynasty, originates in the Sichuan province of China.
- Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni sacks the Hindu religious center of Somnath and takes away a booty of 20 million dinars (approximate date).
Religion
- April 9 – Pope Benedict VIII dies after a 12-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by his brother John XIX as the 144th pope of the Catholic Church.
Births
Deaths
- April 9 – Benedict VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
- July 13 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
- Abd ar-Rahman V, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba
- Alpert of Metz, French Benedictine chronicler
- Brihtwine, bishop of Wells (approximate date)
- Choe Hang, civil minister of Goryeo (Korea)
- Cúán úa Lothcháin, Irish poet and Chief Ollam
- Hugbert (or Hukbrecht), bishop of Meissen
- Sultan al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Fars (b. 993)
References
- Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7.
- Boissonade, B. (1934). "Les premières croisades françaises en Espagne. Normands, Gascons, Aquitains et Bourguignons (1018-1032)". Bulletin Hispanique. 36 (1): 5–28. doi:10.3406/hispa.1934.2607.
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