1061

Year 1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1061 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1061
MLXI
Ab urbe condita1814
Armenian calendar510
ԹՎ ՇԺ
Assyrian calendar5811
Balinese saka calendar982–983
Bengali calendar468
Berber calendar2011
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1605
Burmese calendar423
Byzantine calendar6569–6570
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3757 or 3697
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3758 or 3698
Coptic calendar777–778
Discordian calendar2227
Ethiopian calendar1053–1054
Hebrew calendar4821–4822
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1117–1118
 - Shaka Samvat982–983
 - Kali Yuga4161–4162
Holocene calendar11061
Igbo calendar61–62
Iranian calendar439–440
Islamic calendar452–453
Japanese calendarKōhei 4
(康平4年)
Javanese calendar964–965
Julian calendar1061
MLXI
Korean calendar3394
Minguo calendar851 before ROC
民前851年
Nanakshahi calendar−407
Seleucid era1372/1373 AG
Thai solar calendar1603–1604
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1187 or 806 or 34
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1188 or 807 or 35
Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)

Events

Europe

  • Spring Robert de Grandmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I), and eleven monks of the Abbey of Saint-Evroul, are banished by Duke William II (the Bastard) of Normandy for violence, and travel to Southern Italy.[1]
  • Summer Norman forces led by Duke Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger I invade Sicily. They land unseen during the night and surprise the Saracen army. Guiscard conquers Messina and marches into central Sicily.
  • June 28 Count Floris I is ambushed on a retreat from Zaltbommel and killed by German troops at Nederhemert. Most of West Frisia (later part of the County of Holland) is conquered and annexed by the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Sosols (a tribe in Estonia) destroy the Kievan Rus' fortification of Yuryev in Tartu, and carry out a raid on Pskov.[2]

Africa

  • Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.

Religion

Births

  • Al-Maziri, Zirid imam, jurist and scholar (d. 1141)
  • Al-Tughrai, Persian poet and alchemist (d. 1121)
  • Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia and Calabria (or 1060)
  • William II (the German), count of Burgundy (d. 1125)
  • Wuyashu, chieftain of the Wanyan tribe (d. 1113)

Deaths

  • January 28 Spytihněv II, duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
  • May 5 Humbert of Moyenmoutier, French cardinal
  • June 28 Floris I, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie)
  • July 13 Beatrice I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1037)
  • July 27 Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church
  • Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Persian geographer and historian
  • Adelmann, bishop of Brescia (approximate date)
  • Ali ibn Ridwan, Arab physician and astronomer
  • Burgheard, English nobleman
  • Burkhard I (or Burchardus), German nobleman
  • Conrad III (or Konrad III), German nobleman
  • Henry I (or Heinrich I), German count palatine
  • Rajaraja Narendra, Indian ruler (b. 1022)
  • Rúaidhri Ua Flaithbheartaigh, king of Iar Connacht
  • Song Qi, Chinese statesman and historian (b. 998)

References

  1. John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South 1016–1130 (London: Solitaire Books, 1981), pp. 146–47.
  2. Mäesalu, Ain (2012). "Could Kedipiv in East-Slavonic Chronicles be Keava hill fort?" (PDF). Estonian Journal of Archaeology. 1: 199. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
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