1064

Year 1064 (MLXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1064 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1064
MLXIV
Ab urbe condita1817
Armenian calendar513
ԹՎ ՇԺԳ
Assyrian calendar5814
Balinese saka calendar985–986
Bengali calendar471
Berber calendar2014
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1608
Burmese calendar426
Byzantine calendar6572–6573
Chinese calendar癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
3760 or 3700
     to 
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
3761 or 3701
Coptic calendar780–781
Discordian calendar2230
Ethiopian calendar1056–1057
Hebrew calendar4824–4825
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1120–1121
 - Shaka Samvat985–986
 - Kali Yuga4164–4165
Holocene calendar11064
Igbo calendar64–65
Iranian calendar442–443
Islamic calendar456–457
Japanese calendarKōhei 7
(康平7年)
Javanese calendar967–968
Julian calendar1064
MLXIV
Korean calendar3397
Minguo calendar848 before ROC
民前848年
Nanakshahi calendar−404
Seleucid era1375/1376 AG
Thai solar calendar1606–1607
Tibetan calendar阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1190 or 809 or 37
     to 
阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1191 or 810 or 38
The Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa (Italy)

Events

Europe

  • Summer King Ferdinand I (the Great) conquers more territory in modern-day Portugal and captures Coimbra. He appoints Sisnando Davides to reorganise the economy and administer the lands encircling the city.
  • European warriors go to Spain, to participate in the siege of Barbastro. This expedition is sanctioned by Pope Alexander II – and is now regarded as an early form of Crusade.[1]
  • Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, is shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu (Normandy). He is captured by Count Guy I who takes him as hostage to his castle of Beaurian.
  • Duke William I (the Bastard) demands the release of Harold Godwinson from Guy I (after paid a ransom). Harold must swear an oath to aid William to the throne of England.
  • Kings Harald Hardrada of Norway and Sweyn II of Denmark agree to a peace agreement. Harald turns his attentions to England where he believes he has a right to the throne.

Seljuk Empire

  • April 27 Alp Arslan, succeeds to the throne as sultan of the Seljuk Empire. He becomes sole ruler of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.
  • The Seljuk Turks under Alp Arslan invade Anatolia, and capture Ani after a siege of 25-days. He sacks the city and slaughters its citizens.[2]
  • Badr al-Jamali, Fatimid governor of Syria, tries to engineer a pro-Fatimid coup in Aleppo; but the rebellion is suppressed by Musa Yabgu.[3]

Asia

  • King Bagrat IV of Georgia captures the fortress city of Samshvilde, the capital of the neighboring Tashir-Dzoraget.

Mesoamerica

Religion

  • Winter Great German Pilgrimage: Archbishop Siegfried I of Mainz leads a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
  • Michaelsberg Abbey at Siegburg (modern Germany) is founded by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne.
  • Construction of the Piazza dei Miracoli (known as Piazza del Duomo) at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Volcanology

  • Sunset Crater Volcano (modern-day Arizona) first erupts (approximate date)

Births

  • Adela of Flanders, queen of Denmark (approximate date)
  • Beatrice I, countess of Bigorre (approximate date)
  • Bořivoj II (or Borivoi), duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
  • Danxia Zichun, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1117)
  • Hugh of Flavigny, French abbot (approximate date)
  • Robert Fitz Richard, English nobleman (d. 1136)

Deaths

  • August 15 Ibn Hazm, Andalusian historian and poet (b. 994)
  • November 29 Al-Kunduri, vizier of the Seljuk Empire (b. 1024)
  • December 19 Fujiwara no Nagaie, Japanese nobleman (b. 1005)
  • Akkadevi, princess of the Chalukya Dynasty (b. 1010)
  • Dromtön, Tibetan monk and founder of Reting Monastery
  • Dub dá Leithe (or Dubhdalethe), Irish abbot
  • Gozelo I (or Gozelon), count of Montaigu
  • Llywelyn Aurdorchog, Welsh nobleman (approximate date)
  • Yaakov ben Yakar, German Jewish rabbi (b. 990)
  • Yi Yuanji, Chinese painter (approximate date)

References

  1. McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
  2. Baynes, T.S. (2008). Anni, Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 72.
  3. David Nicolle (2013). Osprey: Manzikert 1071: The breaking of Byzantium, p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78096-503-1.
  4. Anales de Tlatelolco, Rafael Tena INAH–CONACULTA 2004, p. 55.
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