1078

Year 1078 (MLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1078 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1078
MLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1831
Armenian calendar527
ԹՎ ՇԻԷ
Assyrian calendar5828
Balinese saka calendar999–1000
Bengali calendar485
Berber calendar2028
English Regnal year12 Will. 1  13 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1622
Burmese calendar440
Byzantine calendar6586–6587
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3774 or 3714
     to 
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3775 or 3715
Coptic calendar794–795
Discordian calendar2244
Ethiopian calendar1070–1071
Hebrew calendar4838–4839
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1134–1135
 - Shaka Samvat999–1000
 - Kali Yuga4178–4179
Holocene calendar11078
Igbo calendar78–79
Iranian calendar456–457
Islamic calendar470–471
Japanese calendarJōryaku 2
(承暦2年)
Javanese calendar982–983
Julian calendar1078
MLXXVIII
Korean calendar3411
Minguo calendar834 before ROC
民前834年
Nanakshahi calendar−390
Seleucid era1389/1390 AG
Thai solar calendar1620–1621
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1204 or 823 or 51
     to 
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1205 or 824 or 52
Nikephoros III (middle) (c. 1002–1081)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Nikephoros Botaneiates, a Byzantine general (strategos) of the Theme of the Anatolics, revolts against Emperor Michael VII (Doukas). With the support of the Seljuk Turks who provide him with troops, Nikephoros marches upon Nicaea (modern Turkey). He defeats the imperial army and proclaims himself emperor.
  • March 24 Nikephoros Botaneiates enters Constantinople in triumph and is crowned by Patriarch Cosmas I as emperor Nikephoros III of the Byzantine Empire. Michael VII resigns his throne after a 7-year reign and retires into the Monastery of Stoudios.[1]
  • Battle of Kalavrye: The imperial forces of General Alexios Komnenos are victorious over the rebellious army (12,000 men) under Nikephoros Bryennios (the Elder), governor (doux) of the Theme of Dyrrhachium. Bryennios is captured and later blinded.
  • Philaretos Brachamios abandons his claim to the Byzantine throne, on being appointed governor of Antioch, a foundation of the later Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

Europe

  • August 7 Battle of Mellrichstadt: Emperor Henry IV defeats the German anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden, duke of Swabia, near Mellrichstadt (modern Germany).
  • October 3 Grand Prince Iziaslav I dies, and is succeeded by Vsevolod I, who unites the principalities – Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslavl – in Kievan Rus'.[2]

England

  • The White Tower of the Tower of London is begun, under the direction of Gundulf (or Gundulph), bishop of Rochester (approximate date).

Africa

  • The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, besieges Ceuta. Since the city can receive help from the sea, the siege will last until 1083.

China

  • By this year, the iron industry in the Song Dynasty is producing a total weight of 127,000,000 kg (125,000 t) of iron product per year.

Religion

Births

Deaths

  • February 20 Herman, bishop of Salisbury
  • May 30 Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince
  • August 9 Peter I, Italian nobleman
  • August 26 Herluin, founder of Bec Abbey
  • October 3
    • Boris Vyacheslavich, prince of Chernigov
    • Iziaslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1024)
  • November 6 Berthold II, duke of Carinthia
  • November 11 Udo, archbishop of Trier
  • Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Persian scholar
  • Andreas (or Andrew), archbishop of Bari
  • Atsiz ibn Uvaq, Turkish emir of Damascus (or 1079)
  • Immilla of Turin, Italian noblewoman
  • Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi, Fatimid scholar (b. 1000)
  • Nikephoritzes, Byzantine governor
  • Rhys ab Owain, king of Deheubarth
  • Richard I (Drengot), prince of Capua
  • Tunka Manin, ruler of the Ghana Empire (b. 1010)
  • Zeng Gongliang, Chinese scholar and writer (b. 998)
  • Zhang Xian, Chinese poet and writer (b. 990)

References

  1. John Julius Norwich (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee, p. 361. ISBN 0-394-53779-3.
  2. Martin, Janet (1993). Medieval Russia, 980–1584, pp. 33–35. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67636-6.
  3. Dehsen, Christian D. Von; Harris, Scott L. (1999). Philosophers and Religious Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN 9781573561525.
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