1074

Year 1074 (MLXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1074 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1074
MLXXIV
Ab urbe condita1827
Armenian calendar523
ԹՎ ՇԻԳ
Assyrian calendar5824
Balinese saka calendar995–996
Bengali calendar481
Berber calendar2024
English Regnal year8 Will. 1  9 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1618
Burmese calendar436
Byzantine calendar6582–6583
Chinese calendar癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3770 or 3710
     to 
甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3771 or 3711
Coptic calendar790–791
Discordian calendar2240
Ethiopian calendar1066–1067
Hebrew calendar4834–4835
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1130–1131
 - Shaka Samvat995–996
 - Kali Yuga4174–4175
Holocene calendar11074
Igbo calendar74–75
Iranian calendar452–453
Islamic calendar466–467
Japanese calendarEnkyū 6 / Jōhō 1
(承保元年)
Javanese calendar978–979
Julian calendar1074
MLXXIV
Korean calendar3407
Minguo calendar838 before ROC
民前838年
Nanakshahi calendar−394
Seleucid era1385/1386 AG
Thai solar calendar1616–1617
Tibetan calendar阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1200 or 819 or 47
     to 
阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1201 or 820 or 48
King Géza I of Hungary (c. 1040–1077)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Norman mercenaries, led by Roussel de Bailleul, proclaim John Doukas emperor of the Byzantine Empire. His nephew, Emperor Michael VII (Doukas), forms an alliance with Seljuk chieftain Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, who is raiding in the eastern regions of Anatolia. The Seljuk Turks ambush the Norman forces; Roussel and John are defeated and captured. But a ransom, raised by Roussel's wife, allows him to return to Amaseia.[1]

Europe

  • February 2 Treaty of Gerstungen: Emperor Henry IV is forced to restore the peace with Duke Otto of Nordheim (one of the Saxon leaders of the Saxon Rebellion). He signs a treaty in Gerstungen Castle, on the River Werra in Thuringia (modern Germany).
  • February 7 Battle of Montesarchio: Prince Pandulf IV, co-ruler of Benevento, is killed while fighting the Normans in southern Italy.
  • March 14 Battle of Mogyoród: King Solomon is defeated by his cousins, Duke Géza I and Ladislaus I. He is dethroned and Géza becomes the new ruler of Hungary.
  • October 21 The Belgium beer brand Affligem is founded.

Africa

  • Spring Badr al-Jamali becomes Chief Wazir (Grand Vizier) and effectively military dictator of the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah in Egypt.[2]

China

  • Emperor Shen Zong of the Song Dynasty establishes a Marine Office and a Goods Control Bureau north-west of Shanghai, allowing for the loading and unloading of freight.

Religion

Births

  • February 12 Conrad II, king of Germany (d. 1101)[3]
  • September 16 Al-Musta'li, Fatimid caliph (d. 1101)
  • Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi, Arab philologist (d. 1144)
  • Edgar (the Valliant), king of Scotland (d. 1107)
  • Hugh I, count of Champagne (approximate date)
  • Ibn al-Tilmidh, Syriac physician and poet (d. 1165)
  • Maud, queen of Scotland (approximate date)

Deaths

  • February 7 Pandulf IV, Lombard prince
  • April 25 Herman I, margrave of Baden
  • May 6 Dúnán (or Donat), bishop of Dublin
  • October 25 Shōshi, empress of Japan (b. 988)
  • Ibn al-Wafid, Andalusian pharmacologist
  • Joseph Tarchaneiotes, Byzantine general
  • Peter Krešimir IV, king of Croatia (or 1075)
  • Ralph IV (or Raoul), French nobleman
  • Wugunai, Chinese chieftain (b. 1021)
  • Yang Wenguang, Chinese general

References

  1. Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 155. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
  2. David Nicolle (2003). The First Crusade 1096–99: Conquest of the Holy Land, p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84176-515-0.
  3. "Conrad | king of the Germans". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
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