1051

Year 1051 (MLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1051 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1051
MLI
Ab urbe condita1804
Armenian calendar500
ԹՎ Շ
Assyrian calendar5801
Balinese saka calendar972–973
Bengali calendar458
Berber calendar2001
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1595
Burmese calendar413
Byzantine calendar6559–6560
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
3747 or 3687
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3748 or 3688
Coptic calendar767–768
Discordian calendar2217
Ethiopian calendar1043–1044
Hebrew calendar4811–4812
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1107–1108
 - Shaka Samvat972–973
 - Kali Yuga4151–4152
Holocene calendar11051
Igbo calendar51–52
Iranian calendar429–430
Islamic calendar442–443
Japanese calendarEishō 6
(永承6年)
Javanese calendar954–955
Julian calendar1051
MLI
Korean calendar3384
Minguo calendar861 before ROC
民前861年
Nanakshahi calendar−417
Seleucid era1362/1363 AG
Thai solar calendar1593–1594
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1177 or 796 or 24
     to 
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1178 or 797 or 25
Henry I of France marries Anna of Kiev.

Events

Europe

  • Spring William of Normandy consolidates his power in Normandy. He fights over the control of Maine (after the death of Count Hugh IV), and lays siege to the fortresses of Alençon and Domfront (Western France).
  • May 19 King Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims. William of Normandy marries Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Count Baldwin V, which Henry sees as a threat to his throne.[1]
  • Summer Drogo of Hauteville, count of Apulia and Calabria, meets Pope Leo IX in southern Italy – who has been sent by Emperor Henry III (the Black) to re-establish the "freedom of the Catholic Church".
  • Drogo of Hauteville is forced to promise Leo IX to stop the Normans from pillaging the Lombard countryside. On his way back, Drogo is assassinated near Bovino by a Byzantine conspiracy.

England

  • Eustace II, count of Boulogne, visits England and is received with honour at the court by King Edward the Confessor. In Dover a fight breaks out between the Norman visitors and the locals, resulting in the deaths of several people. Edward blames the people of Dover and orders Godwin, earl of Wessex, to deal with them. Godwin refuses to obey Edward's order, and in response Edward raises an army and forces the Godwin family into exile.
  • Edward the Confessor invites William of Normandy to England. It is at this point that it is thought that Edward promises the English throne to William in the event of his death.
  • Heregeld is abolished by Edward the Confessor. It has been collected for many years to provide funds for defending the country from Viking raiders.

Religion

  • Hilarion of Kiev (or IIarion) becomes the first non-Greek metropolitan bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in Kiev.

Births

  • September 21 Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1087)
  • Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys (d. 1111)
  • Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England (d. c. 1126)
  • Robert II (Curthose), duke of Normandy (d. 1134)[2]
  • Mi Fu, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths

  • January 22 Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
  • February 28 Humfrid, archbishop of Magdeburg
  • March 14 Gerard I, bishop of Cambrai
  • March 25 Hugh IV, count of Maine
  • April 27 Fulk Bertrand I, count of Provence
  • November 7 Rotho, bishop of Paderborn
  • Bardo, German abbot and archbishop
  • Bernard, margrave of the Nordmark
  • Bi Sheng, Chinese artisan and inventor (b. 990)
  • Drogo of Hauteville, Norman nobleman
  • Jordan of Laron, bishop of Limoges
  • Kálfr Árnason, Norwegian chieftain
  • Ralph de Gacé, Norman nobleman

References

  1. Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty, pp. 106–108.
  2. Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780195334036.
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