1009

Year 1009 (MIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1009 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1009
MIX
Ab urbe condita1762
Armenian calendar458
ԹՎ ՆԾԸ
Assyrian calendar5759
Balinese saka calendar930–931
Bengali calendar416
Berber calendar1959
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1553
Burmese calendar371
Byzantine calendar6517–6518
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3705 or 3645
     to 
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3706 or 3646
Coptic calendar725–726
Discordian calendar2175
Ethiopian calendar1001–1002
Hebrew calendar4769–4770
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1065–1066
 - Shaka Samvat930–931
 - Kali Yuga4109–4110
Holocene calendar11009
Igbo calendar9–10
Iranian calendar387–388
Islamic calendar399–400
Japanese calendarKankō 6
(寛弘6年)
Javanese calendar911–912
Julian calendar1009
MIX
Korean calendar3342
Minguo calendar903 before ROC
民前903年
Nanakshahi calendar−459
Seleucid era1320/1321 AG
Thai solar calendar1551–1552
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1135 or 754 or −18
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1136 or 755 or −17
Emperor Lý Thái Tổ (r. 1009–1028)

Events

Europe

  • February 14 or March 9 The first known mention is made of the name of Lithuania, in connection with the murder of Bruno of Querfurt. He is beheaded and his 18 companions are hanged the same day during a mission among the Prussians in the Baltic region.[1]
  • May 9 Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus, an Italian nobleman, revolt in Bari against the Catepanate of Italy (a province of the Byzantine Empire). He and his brother-in-law Dattus (or Datto) mobilise a large army and invade southern Italy.[2]
  • November 1 Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II in the battle of Alcolea. He enters the city of Córdoba, which is sacked by Berbers and Castillans. Sulayman is elected as caliph of the Caliphate of Córdoba.
  • Doge Pietro II Orseolo dies after an 18-year reign in which he has started the expansion of Venetia by conquering the islands of Lastovo and Korčula along the Dalmatian coast. Pietro is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Otto Orseolo as sole ruler of Venice.[3]
  • Law on planning and building passed in Serbia during the reign of Prince Jovan Vladimir.

England

  • Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard repeatedly attack southern England, destroying the land to avenge the St. Brice's Day massacre of 1002.
  • August - A large Viking army led by Thorkell the Tall lands on Kent and proceeds to terrorize most of Southern England.[4][5]

Asia

  • Spring General Gang Jo leads a coup against King Mokjong. He is deposed and sent into exile in Chungju. After murdering Mokjong, Gang Jo places Hyeonjong on the throne as ruler of Goryeo.
  • November The Lý Dynasty in Vietnam is proclaimed by Emperor Lý Thái Tổ (former commander of the palace guard) after the death of Lê Long Đĩnh, the last monarch of the Lê Dynasty.

Japan

  • Princess Takahime (daughter of Imperial Prince Tomohira, cousin of emperor Ichijo) is married to Fujiwara no Yorimichi, first son of Fujiwara no Michinaga, enlarging the latter’s power.
  • Takashina no Mitsuko is imprisoned for cursing the empress; Fujiwara no Korechika is also implicated but later pardoned.
  • Murasaki Shikibu teaches the Chinese written language to Empress Shoshi in secret because this is usually a male accomplishment.

Religion

Births

  • May 22 Su Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1066)
  • December 14 Atsunaga, future Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
  • Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (d. 1079)
  • Ali Hariri, Marwanid poet and philosopher (d. 1079)
  • George the Hagiorite, Georgian calligrapher (d. 1065)
  • Qatran Tabrizi, Persian poet and writer (d. 1072)
  • Toirdelbach Ua Briain, king of Munster (d. 1086)
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sultan of Morocco (d. 1106)

Deaths

References

  1. In the Annals of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
  2. Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016–1130. Longmans; London, 1967.
  3. Norwich, John Julius (1982). A History of Venice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  4. Peter Sawyer (2001). The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. London: Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-285434-6.
  5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  6. Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
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