1073

Year 1073 (MLXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1073 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1073
MLXXIII
Ab urbe condita1826
Armenian calendar522
ԹՎ ՇԻԲ
Assyrian calendar5823
Balinese saka calendar994–995
Bengali calendar480
Berber calendar2023
English Regnal year7 Will. 1  8 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1617
Burmese calendar435
Byzantine calendar6581–6582
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
3769 or 3709
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3770 or 3710
Coptic calendar789–790
Discordian calendar2239
Ethiopian calendar1065–1066
Hebrew calendar4833–4834
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1129–1130
 - Shaka Samvat994–995
 - Kali Yuga4173–4174
Holocene calendar11073
Igbo calendar73–74
Iranian calendar451–452
Islamic calendar465–466
Japanese calendarEnkyū 5
(延久5年)
Javanese calendar977–978
Julian calendar1073
MLXXIII
Korean calendar3406
Minguo calendar839 before ROC
民前839年
Nanakshahi calendar−395
Seleucid era1384/1385 AG
Thai solar calendar1615–1616
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1199 or 818 or 46
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1200 or 819 or 47
Pope Gregory VII (c. 1015–1085)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Emperor Michael VII (Doukas) sends a Byzantine army to deal with Seljuk raiding in Cappadocia, supported with a mixed force of Norman and French mercenary heavy cavalry under Roussel de Bailleul. Roussel re-conquers some territory in Galatia and declares it an independent Norman state. Michael, enraged, sends another army led by his uncle, Caesar John Doukas and the veteran General Nikephoros Botaneiates to deal with the rising of the Norman threat in Asia minor. But the Byzantines are defeated and John is captured. Roussel marches with a force (3,000 men) across Bithynia to the Bosporus and sacks Chrysopolis, near Constantinople.[1]

Europe

  • May 25 King Sancho IV of Navarre and Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza, conclude an alliance by treaty.[2]
  • Ebles II of Roucy leads a French army in Spain, to support King Sancho V of Aragon in his struggle against his Muslim neighbors.[3]
  • Sviatoslav II and Vsevolod I unite the Kievan forces and expel their brother Iziaslav I. Sviatoslav II becomes Grand Prince of Kiev.
  • October 14 The Judicate of Arborea (one of the four independent kingdoms in Sardinia) is recognised by Pope Gregory VII.

England

  • Edgar Ætheling, last male member of the House of Wessex, joins forces with King Malcolm III of Scotland and King Philip I (the Amorous) of France in an attempt to take the English throne.

Asia

  • Wang Anshi, Chinese chief chancellor of the Song Dynasty, creates a new bureau of the central government (called the Directorate of Weapons), which supervises the manufacture of military armaments and ensures quality control.
  • June 15 Emperor Go-Sanjō dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his 19-year-old son Shirakawa as the 72nd emperor of Japan.

Religion

  • April 21 Pope Alexander II dies after a 11½-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Gregory VII as the 157th pope of the Catholic Church.
  • Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.
  • John IX bar Shushan ends his term as Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

  • Agnes of Waiblingen, daughter of Henry IV (or 1072)
  • Alfonso I (the Battler), king of Aragon (approximate date)
  • Al-Tighnari, Moorish botanist and physician (d. 1118)
  • Anastatius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1154)
  • David IV (the Builder), king of Georgia (d. 1125)
  • Leopold III (the Good), margrave of Austria (d. 1136)
  • Magnus III (Barefoot), king of Norway (d. 1103)
  • Meng, empress of the Song Dynasty (d. 1131)
  • Philippa, French noblewoman (approximate date)
  • Shaykh Tabarsi, Persian Shia scholar (d. 1153)
  • Thomas of Marle, lord of Coucy (d. 1130)
  • Zbigniew, duke of Poland (approximate date)
  • Lady Six Monkey, queen regnant of the Mixtec city State of Huachino (d. 1100)

Deaths

  • April 21 Alexander II, pope of the Catholic Church[4]
  • June 15 Go-Sanjō, emperor of Japan (b. 1032)
  • July 12 John Gualbert, Italian monk and abbot
  • December 20 Dominic of Silos, Spanish abbot (b. 1000)
  • Al-Qushayri, Persian Sufi scholar and theologian (or 1072)
  • Anthony of Kiev, Russian monk and saint (b. 983)
  • Badis ibn Habus, Berber king of the Taifa of Granada
  • Barisone I of Torres, Sardinian ruler (judge) of Arborea
  • Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia (or 1072)
  • Zhou Dunyi, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1017)

References

  1. Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 155. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
  2. Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [35]. JSTOR 3679149.
  3. Canellas, Angel (1951). "Las Cruzadas de Aragon en el Siglo XI". Argensola: Revista de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses. 7. ISSN 0518-4088. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  4. "Alexander II | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
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