1049

Year 1049 (MXLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1049 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1049
MXLIX
Ab urbe condita1802
Armenian calendar498
ԹՎ ՆՂԸ
Assyrian calendar5799
Balinese saka calendar970–971
Bengali calendar456
Berber calendar1999
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1593
Burmese calendar411
Byzantine calendar6557–6558
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3745 or 3685
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3746 or 3686
Coptic calendar765–766
Discordian calendar2215
Ethiopian calendar1041–1042
Hebrew calendar4809–4810
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1105–1106
 - Shaka Samvat970–971
 - Kali Yuga4149–4150
Holocene calendar11049
Igbo calendar49–50
Iranian calendar427–428
Islamic calendar440–441
Japanese calendarEishō 4
(永承4年)
Javanese calendar952–953
Julian calendar1049
MXLIX
Korean calendar3382
Minguo calendar863 before ROC
民前863年
Nanakshahi calendar−419
Seleucid era1360/1361 AG
Thai solar calendar1591–1592
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1175 or 794 or 22
     to 
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1176 or 795 or 23
Pope Leo IX (1002–1054)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Pecheneg Revolt: Emperor Constantine IX decides to transfer 15,000 Pecheneg warriors from their positions in the Balkans, to the eastern front. Upon approaching the Bosporus, the Pechenegs decide to turn back, and march through Bulgaria, until they reach the Byzantine city of Serdia. Later, joined by followers, the Pecheneg tribes raise the banner of revolt in Thrace.

Europe

British Isles

  • Viking Irish raiders ally with King Gruffydd ap Rhydderch of Gwent, in raiding along the River Severn.[3]

Africa

  • The Banu Hilal, a confederation of tribes of Arabia, begin their invasion in the Maghreb (North Africa). They are organized by the Egyptian Fatimid Caliphate to punish their former Zirid vassals.

Asia

  • The Iron Pagoda in Kaifeng is constructed, during the Chinese Song Dynasty.

Religion

Births

  • October 9 Seonjong, king of Goryeo (d. 1094)
  • Godelieve, Flemish saint (approximate date)
  • Hermann II, count palatine of Lotharingia (d. 1085)
  • John Theristus, Italian Benedictine monk (d. 1129)
  • Li Gonglin, Chinese painter and antiquarian (d. 1106)
  • Peter de Honestis, Italian monk (approximate date)
  • Saw Lu, king of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1084)
  • Rhiryd ap Bleddyn, king of Powys (d. 1088)

Deaths

  • January 1 Odilo of Cluny, French Benedictine abbot
  • January 12 Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (b. 967)
  • January 13 Dirk IV, count of Friesland west of the Vlie
  • December 1 Ermesinda of Bigorre, queen of Aragon (b. 1015)
  • Airlangga, Indonesian ruler (raja) of Kahuripan
  • Eustace I, count of Boulogne (House of Flanders)

References

  1. Philibert Schmitz, "Theoduin", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1929), 757-758.
  2. Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia. Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 42. ISBN 88-8289-529-7.
  3. Barlow, Frank (2002). The Godwins. Pearson Education Ltd. p. 39. ISBN 0-582-42381-3.
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