1075

Year 1075 (MLXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1075 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1075
MLXXV
Ab urbe condita1828
Armenian calendar524
ԹՎ ՇԻԴ
Assyrian calendar5825
Balinese saka calendar996–997
Bengali calendar482
Berber calendar2025
English Regnal year9 Will. 1  10 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1619
Burmese calendar437
Byzantine calendar6583–6584
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3771 or 3711
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3772 or 3712
Coptic calendar791–792
Discordian calendar2241
Ethiopian calendar1067–1068
Hebrew calendar4835–4836
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1131–1132
 - Shaka Samvat996–997
 - Kali Yuga4175–4176
Holocene calendar11075
Igbo calendar75–76
Iranian calendar453–454
Islamic calendar467–468
Japanese calendarJōhō 2
(承保2年)
Javanese calendar979–980
Julian calendar1075
MLXXV
Korean calendar3408
Minguo calendar837 before ROC
民前837年
Nanakshahi calendar−393
Seleucid era1386/1387 AG
Thai solar calendar1617–1618
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1201 or 820 or 48
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1202 or 821 or 49
Modern artist impression of Shen Kuo

Events

Africa

  • The Kingdom of Mapungubwe is established, in modern-day South Africa.

Byzantine Empire

  • The future Emperor Alexios Komnenos captures the Norman rebel Roussel de Bailleul in Amaseia. Roussel had established a principality in eastern Anatolia in 1073 after rebelling against Emperor Michael VII Doukas, basing his power on his western mercenaries and local support in exchange for protection against invading Turkmen.[1]

Europe

  • June 9 First Battle of Langensalza: Emperor Henry IV defeats the Saxon nobles on the River Unstrut near Langensalza in Thuringia (modern Germany). He subjugates Saxony, and immediately tries to reassert his rights as the sovereign of northern Italy.
  • Anund Gårdske is deposed as king of Svealand (also called Sweden proper). King Håkan the Red of Götaland proclaims himself ruler of all Sweden.

England

  • Revolt of the Earls: The Earls Ralph de Gael, Roger de Breteuil and Waltheof, begin a revolt against King William I (the Conqueror) in the last serious act of resistance to the Norman Conquest.
  • Roger de Breteuil is brought before the Great Council. He is deprived of his lands and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. Ralph de Gael and Waltheof are charged as co-conspirators.
  • August 25 Council of London: Archbishop Lanfranc instigates the movement of English bishoprics. One of these is the bishopric of Sherborne and Wilton which is moved to Old Sarum.

Asia

  • Summer Shen Kuo, Chinese polymath scientist and statesman, solves a border dispute with the Liao Dynasty by dredging up old diplomatic records. He refutes Emperor Dao Zong's bluffs point for point during a meeting at Mt. Yongan (near modern-day Pingquan), reestablishing the rightful borders of the Song Dynasty.
  • Vietnamese forces under General Lý Thường Kiệt defend Vietnam against a Chinese invasion.
  • The Liao Dynasty version of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka is completed (approximate date).

Religion

  • February Pope Gregory VII holds a council in the Lateran Palace at Rome. He publishes a decree against laymen investiture (an act which will later cause the Investiture Controversy).
  • April The Dictatus papae (a compilation of 27 statements of powers) are include in the registry of Gregory VII, in which he asserts papal authority over earthly as well as spiritual rulers.
  • December 8 Gregory VII writes a letter of reprimand to Henry IV. He accuses him of breaching his word and continued support of excommunicated councilors.
  • December 25 Gregory VII is kidnapped in the church during Christmas night in Rome and briefly imprisoned by the Roman nobleman Cencio I Frangipane.

Births

  • March 18 Al-Zamakhshari, Persian philosopher (d. 1144)
  • April 16 Orderic Vitalis, English Benedictine chronicler[2]
  • June 5 Tianzuo (Yanning), last emperor of the Liao dynasty
  • November 25 Taizong, emperor of the Jin dynasty (d. 1135)
  • Adelaide del Vasto, countess and regent of Sicily (d. 1118)
  • Bertha, queen of Aragon and Navarre (approximate date)
  • Conrad I, archbishop of Salzburg (approximate date)
  • Frederick I, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
  • Gerald de Windsor, English nobleman (approximate date) (d. 1135)
  • Gim Busik, Korean statesman and general (d. 1151)
  • Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat, French noblewoman (d. 1135)
  • Henry IX "the Black", duke of Bavaria (d. 1126)
  • Jaya Pala, Indian king of Kamarupa (d. 1100)
  • Jinadattasuri, Indian Jain poet and writer (d. 1154)
  • Lothair III (or II) of Supplinburg, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1137)[3]
  • Nicholas the Pilgrim, Italian shepherd and saint (d. 1094)
  • Norbert of Xanten, archbishop of Magdeburg (d. 1134)
  • Raymond Pilet d'Alès, French nobleman (d. 1120)
  • Soběslav I (Sobeslaus), duke of Bohemia (d. 1140)
  • Svatopluk "the Lion" of Olomouc, duke of Bohemia (d. 1109)
  • Tancred, Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade (d. 1112)

Deaths

  • March 29 Ottokar I (or Otakar), German nobleman
  • April 2 Al-Qa'im, Abbasid caliph in Baghdad (b. 1001)
  • April 15 Erlembald Cotta, Italian military leader
  • May 21 Richeza (or Adelaide), Hungarian queen
  • June 9 Gebhard of Supplinburg, German nobleman
  • June 10 Ernest (the Brave), margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
  • June 23 Theodwin, prince-bishop of Liège
  • August 2 John VIII, patriarch of Constantinople
  • August 27 Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, Japanese nobleman (b. 988)
  • November 6 Fujiwara no Norimichi, Japanese nobleman (b. 996)
  • December 4 Anno II, archbishop of Cologne
  • December 13 Xiao Guanyin, Chinese empress (b. 1040)
  • December 18 Edith of Wessex, English queen
  • Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Persian mathematician
  • Al-Mamun, Andalusian emir of the Taifa of Toledo
  • Amhalgaidh mac Cathal, king of Maigh Seóla
  • Anne of Kiev (or Agnes), French queen and regent
  • Dedi I (or Dedo), margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
  • Domnall mac Murchada, king of Leinster and Dublin
  • Frederick II, German nobleman and overlord (b. 1005)
  • Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill, king of Dublin
  • Gundekar II (or Gunzo), bishop of Eichstätt (b. 1019)
  • Ibn Butlan, Arab Nestorian Christian physician (b. 1038)
  • Ibn Hayyan, Moorish historian and writer (b. 987)
  • John Xiphilinus, Byzantine historian (approximate date)
  • Peter Krešimir IV (the Great), king of Croatia (or 1074)
  • Rashid al-Dawla Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
  • Siward (or Sigweard), bishop of Rochester

References

  1. Alexander Daniel Beihammer (2017). Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130, p. 210-212.
  2. "Orderic Vitalis | Norman history". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  3. "Lothar II (or III) | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
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