Year 1076 (MLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1076 MLXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1829 |
Armenian calendar | 525 ԹՎ ՇԻԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5826 |
Balinese saka calendar | 997–998 |
Bengali calendar | 483 |
Berber calendar | 2026 |
English Regnal year | 10 Will. 1 – 11 Will. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 1620 |
Burmese calendar | 438 |
Byzantine calendar | 6584–6585 |
Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3773 or 3566 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3774 or 3567 |
Coptic calendar | 792–793 |
Discordian calendar | 2242 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1068–1069 |
Hebrew calendar | 4836–4837 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1132–1133 |
- Shaka Samvat | 997–998 |
- Kali Yuga | 4176–4177 |
Holocene calendar | 11076 |
Igbo calendar | 76–77 |
Iranian calendar | 454–455 |
Islamic calendar | 468–469 |
Japanese calendar | Jōhō 3 (承保3年) |
Javanese calendar | 980–981 |
Julian calendar | 1076 MLXXVI |
Korean calendar | 3409 |
Minguo calendar | 836 before ROC 民前836年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −392 |
Seleucid era | 1387/1388 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1618–1619 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1202 or 821 or 49 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1203 or 822 or 50 |
Events
editBy place
editEurope
edit- January 24 – Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, holds a synod in Worms (modern Germany). The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed, and the bishops abandon their allegiance to him.
- February 22 – Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church, and all the bishops named by Henry are excommunicated.
- Summer – Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia (modern Netherlands) from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde, taking him prisoner.
- October 8 – Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin (near Split), in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses (known later as the Hollow Church) by a representative of Gregory VII.
- December 13 – Norman conquest of southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno after a short siege.
- December 26 – Bolesław II the Bold (or "the Generous") is crowned as King of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.
England
edit- May 31 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, a participant in the Revolt of the Earls against King William the Conqueror, is beheaded near Winchester.
- November 1 – A frost begins that lasts until April 1077.[1]
- Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest.
Africa
edit- Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids.
Asia
edit- Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II to become king of the Western Chalukya Empire (modern India).
By topic
editLiterature
edit- Anselm of Aosta, an Italian Benedictine abbot, completes his Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.
Religion
edit- Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.
Births
edit- June 1 – Mstislav I "the Great"), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1132)
- Fujiwara no Sadazane, Japanese calligrapher (d. 1120)
- Urban (or Gwrgan), bishop of Llandaff (d. 1134)
- Approximate date
- Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Moorish scholar and judge (d. 1148)
- Hualani, Hawaiian queen and regent
Deaths
edit- February 26 or 27 – Godfrey the Hunchback, duke of Lower Lorraine
- March 18 – Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy
- March 21 – Robert I ("the Old"), duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
- April 18 – Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
- April 28 – Sweyn II Estridsson, king of Denmark
- May 8 – Nasr ibn Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
- May 26 – Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona (b. 1023)
- May 31 – Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (executed)
- June 4 – Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (or Navarre)
- July 15 – Arnost (or Arnošt), bishop of Rochester
- Ramihrdus of Cambrai, French heretic priest and martyr (or 1077)
- William Busac, French nobleman (jure uxoris) (b. 1020)
References
edit- ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.