1055

Year 1055 (MLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1055 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1055
MLV
Ab urbe condita1808
Armenian calendar504
ԹՎ ՇԴ
Assyrian calendar5805
Balinese saka calendar976–977
Bengali calendar462
Berber calendar2005
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1599
Burmese calendar417
Byzantine calendar6563–6564
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3751 or 3691
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3752 or 3692
Coptic calendar771–772
Discordian calendar2221
Ethiopian calendar1047–1048
Hebrew calendar4815–4816
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1111–1112
 - Shaka Samvat976–977
 - Kali Yuga4155–4156
Holocene calendar11055
Igbo calendar55–56
Iranian calendar433–434
Islamic calendar446–447
Japanese calendarTengi 3
(天喜3年)
Javanese calendar958–959
Julian calendar1055
MLV
Korean calendar3388
Minguo calendar857 before ROC
民前857年
Nanakshahi calendar−413
Seleucid era1366/1367 AG
Thai solar calendar1597–1598
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1181 or 800 or 28
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1182 or 801 or 29
Coin of Empress Theodora (980–1056)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • January 11 Emperor Constantine IX (Monomachos) dies after a 12½-year reign at Constantinople. He is succeeded by Theodora (a sister of the former Empress Zoë) who is proclaimed by the imperial guard (with strong opposition from the council) as empress of the Byzantine Empire.

Europe

  • King Ferdinand I (the Great) begins his campaign against al-Andalus. He conquers Seia from the Christian allies of the Muslim taifas.[1] In a drive to consolidate his southern border in Portugal – Ferdinand re-populates the city of Zamora with some of his Cantabrian (montañeses) subjects.

England

  • October 24 Ælfgar, earl of Mercia, is outlawed by the witan ("meeting of wise men"). In revenge he builds a force, and allies himself with the Welsh king Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. After defeating Ralph the Timid (a nephew of King Edward the Confessor), they attack Hereford and raid the church – taking everything of value, leaving the building on fire. The rebels also attack Leominster.
  • Edward the Confessor gives Tostig Godwinson (upon the death of Earl Siward) the important position as earl of Northumbria and the difficult mission of bringing the northern state under control.[2]

Arabian Empire

  • Winter The Seljuk Turks led by Sultan Tughril capture Baghdad and enter the city in a Roman-styled triumph. Al-Malik al-Rahim, the last Buyid emir in Iraq, is taken prisoner.

Art

  • Construction on the Liaodi Pagoda in Hebei is completed (the tallest pagoda in Chinese history, standing at a height of 84 m (275 ft) tall).

Religion

  • King Andrew I (the Catholic) establishes the Benedictine Tihany Abbey. Its foundation charter is the earliest written record extant in the Hungarian language.
  • April 13 Pope Victor II succeeds Leo IX as the 153rd pope of the Catholic Church in Rome (until 1057).

Births

  • August 16 Malik-Shah I, sultan of the Seljuk Empire (d. 1092)
  • September 28 Uicheon, Korean Buddhist monk (d. 1101)
  • Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde, German noblewoman (d. 1100)
  • Alger of Liège, French clergyman and priest (d. 1131)
  • Bertha of Holland, French queen consort (d. 1094)
  • Fujiwara no Akisue, Japanese nobleman (d. 1123)
  • Gilbert Crispin, Norman abbot and theologian (d. 1117)
  • Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Hildebert, French hagiographer and theologian (d. 1133)
  • Ida of Austria, German duchess and crusader (d. 1101)
  • Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror (or 1054)
  • Machig Labdrön, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (d. 1149)
  • Minamoto no Shunrai, Japanese poet (d. 1129)
  • Terken Khatun, Seljuk empress (approximate date)
  • Vigrahapala III, ruler of the Pala Empire (d. 1070)

Deaths

  • January 10 Bretislav I, duke of Bohemia
  • January 11 Constantine IX, Byzantine emperor
  • April 10 Conrad II, duke of Bavaria (b. 1052)
  • May 26 Adalbert, margrave of Austria
  • August 28 Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1016)
  • November 13 Welf III, duke of Carinthia
  • December 5 Conrad I, duke of Bavaria
  • A Nong, Chinese shamaness, matriarch and warrior
  • Benedict I, Hungarian politician and archbishop
  • Boniface IV Frederick, margrave of Tuscany
  • Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, king of Deheubarth
  • Mauger (or Malger), archbishop of Rouen
  • Nong Zhigao, Vietnamese chieftain of Nong
  • Rinchen Zangpo, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 958)
  • Siward (or Sigurd), earl of Northumbria
  • Theodore Aaronios, Byzantine governor
  • Yan Shu, Chinese statesman and poet (b. 991)

References

  1. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
  2. MacLean, Mark (1999). "History of Ireleth and Askam-in-Furness". Bruderlin MacLean Publishing Services. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
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