1077

Year 1077 (MLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1077 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1077
MLXXVII
Ab urbe condita1830
Armenian calendar526
ԹՎ ՇԻԶ
Assyrian calendar5827
Balinese saka calendar998–999
Bengali calendar484
Berber calendar2027
English Regnal year11 Will. 1  12 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1621
Burmese calendar439
Byzantine calendar6585–6586
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3773 or 3713
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3774 or 3714
Coptic calendar793–794
Discordian calendar2243
Ethiopian calendar1069–1070
Hebrew calendar4837–4838
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1133–1134
 - Shaka Samvat998–999
 - Kali Yuga4177–4178
Holocene calendar11077
Igbo calendar77–78
Iranian calendar455–456
Islamic calendar469–470
Japanese calendarJōhō 4 / Jōryaku 1
(承暦元年)
Javanese calendar981–982
Julian calendar1077
MLXXVII
Korean calendar3410
Minguo calendar835 before ROC
民前835年
Nanakshahi calendar−391
Seleucid era1388/1389 AG
Thai solar calendar1619–1620
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1203 or 822 or 50
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1204 or 823 or 51
King Alfonso VI (the Brave) is crowned, and becomes "Emperor of all Spain".

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Fall Nikephoros Bryennios (the Elder), governor (doux) of the Theme of Dyrrhachium in the western Balkans, and Nikephoros Botaneiates, a general (strategos) of the Theme of Anatolics (modern Turkey), are proclaimed emperors by their troops. Emperor Michael VII (Doukas) offers Bryennios the title of caesar (co-emperor) if he submits to his rule, but Bryennios refuses. He sets out from Dyrrhachium, and marches towards Constantinople.

Europe

  • January 25 Walk to Canossa: Emperor Henry IV travels to the Castle of Canossa near Reggio Emilia (Northern Italy), to visit Pope Gregory VII. He waits (with his wife Bertha of Savoy and son Conrad) at the gates for three days, for absolution of his excommunication. Gregory lifts the sentence, imposing on Henry a vow to comply with certain conditions (see Investiture Controversy).
  • King Alfonso VI (the Brave) reaches an agreement with his brother Sancho Ramírez, who is elected as king of Navarre. Alfonso annexes the territories of Álava, part of Gipuzkoa and La Bureba, he is crowned and adopts the title of Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Emperor of all Spain").[1]
  • March 14 German nobles opposing king Henry IV elected an antiking, Rudolf of Rheinfelden, despite king Henry having been absolved.
  • April 3 Henry IV grants the County of Friuli (with ducal status) to Sigaerd of Beilstein, patriarch of Aquileia. He creates the first Parliament, representing the communes as well the nobility and clergy.
  • Hugh I, duke of Burgundy, supports Sancho Ramírez (or Sancho V) in his conquest of the Castle of Muñones from Emir Ahmad al-Muqtadir, who rules the Taifa of Zaragoza.[2]
  • King Mihailo I is given the title "King of the Slavs" by Gregory VII. He becomes the first recognized ruler of the kingdom of Duklja (modern Montenegro).

England

  • Robert II (Curthose) instigates his first insurrection against his father, King William I (the Conqueror), in Normandy.
  • The first recorded trial by combat is held between Wulfstan and Walter.
  • August 14 A fire destroys much of London.[3]

Seljuk Empire

  • Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, a cousin of late Sultan Alp Arslan, consolidates his leadership over the Oghuz Turks and founds the Sultanate of Rum (modern Turkey).[4]
  • Anushtegin Gharchai becomes governor (shihna) of Khwarezm and a vassal of the Seljuk Empire (until 1097).

Africa

Arts

Religion

Births

  • January 7 Zhe Zong, emperor of the Song Dynasty (d. 1100)
  • Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat and governor
  • Joseph ibn Migash, Spanish scholar and rabbi (d. 1141)
  • Ye Mengde, Chinese scholar, minister and poet (d. 1148)

Deaths

References

  1. Minguez Fernández, José María (2009). Alfonso VI/Gregorio VII. Soberanía imperial frente a soberanía papal, pp. 30–33. ISSN 1575-801X.
  2. Canellas, Angel (1951). "Las Cruzadas de Aragon en el Siglo XI". Argensola: Revista de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses. 7. ISSN 0518-4088. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  3. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, p. 25. Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876).
  4. Claude Cahen (1968). Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history c. 1070–1330. Trans. J. Jones-Williams, pp. 73–74 (New York: Taplinger).
  5. Grape, Wolfgang (1994). The Bayeux tapestry: monument to a Norman triumph. Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-1365-8. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  6. Cowdrey, H. E. J. (1998). Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, p. 279. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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