1040

Year 1040 (MXL) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1040 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1040
MXL
Ab urbe condita1793
Armenian calendar489
ԹՎ ՆՁԹ
Assyrian calendar5790
Balinese saka calendar961–962
Bengali calendar447
Berber calendar1990
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1584
Burmese calendar402
Byzantine calendar6548–6549
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3736 or 3676
     to 
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3737 or 3677
Coptic calendar756–757
Discordian calendar2206
Ethiopian calendar1032–1033
Hebrew calendar4800–4801
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1096–1097
 - Shaka Samvat961–962
 - Kali Yuga4140–4141
Holocene calendar11040
Igbo calendar40–41
Iranian calendar418–419
Islamic calendar431–432
Japanese calendarChōryaku 4 / Chōkyū 1
(長久元年)
Javanese calendar943–944
Julian calendar1040
MXL
Korean calendar3373
Minguo calendar872 before ROC
民前872年
Nanakshahi calendar−428
Seleucid era1351/1352 AG
Thai solar calendar1582–1583
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1166 or 785 or 13
     to 
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1167 or 786 or 14
Artwork of the Battle of Dandanaqan

Events

Europe

  • Spring Nikephoros Dokeianos, Byzantine governor of the Catepanate of Italy, is murdered by Lombard rebels at Ascoli. He is replaced by Michael Dokeianos, who arrives in November with a Varangian army.
  • The Emirate of Sicily is divided and fragmented into small fiefdoms. The Arab nobles of Palermo restore the regime of the Kalbids (approximate date).
  • August 22 - 23 Battle of Brůdek: Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia defeats the German forces under King Henry III (the Black) in the Bohemian Forest.
  • Peter Delyan leads a rebellion against the Byzantine Empire and is proclaimed by the Bulgarian nobles as emperor (tsar) Peter II in Belgrade.

Britain

  • March 17 King Harold Harefoot dies at Oxford at the age of 24. His illegitimate son Ælfwine Haroldsson is left in his grandmother's care, Ælfgifu of Northampton.
  • June 17 Harthacnut lands at Sandwich and reclaims the throne of England which has been taken by Harald Harefoot (see 1035).
  • August 14 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth, who succeeds him as king of Scotland.

Islamic world

  • May 23 Battle of Dandanaqan: The Turkmen Seljuqs defeat the Ghaznavid forces (50,000 men) led by Sultan Mas'ud I at Dandanaqan, a fortress city in the desert near Merv.

Religion

  • Weihenstephan Abbey (Kloster Weihenstephan) in Germany, founds the oldest operating brewery.
  • The Shalu Monastery is founded by the Buddhist monk Chetsun Sherab Jungnay in Tibet.

Births

  • February 22 Rashi, French rabbi and writer (d. 1105)
  • July 12 Yun Gwan, Korean general (d. 1111)
  • Adelaide of Hungary, duchess of Bohemia (d. 1062)
  • Alan Rufus, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile (approximate date)
  • Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Abbadid emir of Seville (d. 1095)
  • Arnold of Soissons, French bishop (approximate date)
  • Blessed Gerard, founder of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1120)
  • Bonfilius, bishop of Foligno (approximate date)
  • Conrad I, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)
  • Elimar I (or Egilmar), count of Oldenburg (d. 1112)
  • Ernulf, French Benedictine monk and bishop (d. 1124)
  • Gebhard III, bishop of Constance (approximate date)
  • Geoffrey III, French nobleman (approximate date)
  • Géza I (Magnus), king of Hungary (approximate date)
  • Guglielmo Embriaco, Genoese merchant (d. 1102)
  • Haziga of Diessen, German countess (approximate date)
  • Harald III, king of Denmark (approximate date)
  • Herman I, margrave of Baden (approximate date)
  • Hugh I, French nobleman (approximate date)
  • Hugh of Die, French bishop (approximate date)
  • Ibn Aqil, Persian theologian and jurist (d. 1119)
  • Ida of Lorraine, French countess (approximate date)
  • Ivo of Chartres, French bishop (approximate date)
  • Ladislaus I, king of Hungary (approximate date)
  • Oddone Frangipane, Italian monk and hermit (d. 1127)
  • Odo I (or Eudes), French nobleman (d. 1086)
  • Roger I, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (d. 1090)
  • Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman (d. 1094)
  • Xiao Guanyin, empress of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1075)
  • Zayn al-Din Gorgani, Persian physician (d. 1136)

Deaths

  • January 17 Mas'ud I, Ghaznavid sultan (b. 998)
  • March 3 Cunigunde, Holy Roman Empress
  • March 17 Harold Harefoot, king of England[1]
  • May 29 Renauld I, French nobleman
  • June 21 Fulk III, French nobleman (b. 970)
  • August 14 Duncan I, king of Scotland[2]
  • October 1 Alan III, duke of Brittany (b. 997)
  • Abu Hashim al-Hasan, Zaidi imam and ruler of Jemen
  • Abu Nasr Mushkan, Persian statesman (or 1039)
  • Ali Daya, Ghaznavid commander-in-chief
  • Begtoghdi, Ghaznavid commander-in-chief
  • Bertha of Milan, Lombard duchess (approximate date)
  • Dietrich I, bishop of Meissen (approximate date)
  • Gilbert, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Helias of Cologne, Irish abbot and musician
  • Hugh, Italian nobleman (approximate date)
  • Hugh I, count of Empúries and Peralada
  • Ibn al-Haytham, Arab astronomer (approximate date)
  • John V, duke of Gaeta (approximate date)
  • Maria of Amalfi, Lombard duchess (approximate date)
  • Nikephoros Dokeianos, Byzantine general
  • Unsuri, Persian poet and writer (or 1039)
  • Yeshe-Ö, Tibetan lama-king (approximate date)

References

  1. "Harold I | king of England". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  2. Cannon, John; Hargreaves, Anne (March 26, 2009). The Kings and Queens of Britain. OUP Oxford. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-158028-4.
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