1073
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 1073 by topic |
|---|
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1073 MLXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1826 |
| Armenian calendar | 522 ԹՎ ՇԻԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5823 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 994–995 |
| Bengali calendar | 480 |
| Berber calendar | 2023 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Will. 1 – 8 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1617 |
| Burmese calendar | 435 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6581–6582 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3770 or 3563 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3771 or 3564 |
| Coptic calendar | 789–790 |
| Discordian calendar | 2239 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1065–1066 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4833–4834 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1129–1130 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 994–995 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4173–4174 |
| Holocene calendar | 11073 |
| Igbo calendar | 73–74 |
| Iranian calendar | 451–452 |
| Islamic calendar | 465–466 |
| Japanese calendar | Enkyū 5 (延久５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 977–978 |
| Julian calendar | 1073 MLXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3406 |
| Minguo calendar | 839 before ROC 民前839年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −395 |
| Seleucid era | 1384/1385 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1615–1616 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1199 or 818 or 46 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1200 or 819 or 47 |
Year 1073 (MLXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- May 25 – King Sancho IV of Navarre and Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza, conclude an alliance by treaty.[1]
- Ebles II of Roucy leads a French army in Spain, to support King Sancho V of Aragon in his struggle against his Muslim neighbors.[2]
- Sviatoslav II and Vsevolod I unite the Kievan forces and expel their brother Iziaslav I. Sviatoslav II becomes Grand Prince of Kiev.
England
- Edgar Ætheling, last male member of the House of Wessex, joins forces with King Malcolm III of Scotland and King Philip I (the Amorous) of France in an attempt to take the English throne.
Asia
- Wang Anshi, Chinese chief chancellor of the Song Dynasty, creates a new bureau of the central government (called the Directorate of Weapons), which supervises the manufacture of military armaments and ensures quality control.
- June 15 – Emperor Go-Sanjō dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his 19-year-old son Shirakawa as the 72nd emperor of Japan.
By topic
Religion
- April 21 – Pope Alexander II dies after a 11½-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Gregory VII as the 157th pope of the Catholic Church.
- Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.
- John IX bar Shushan ends his term as Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
Births
- David IV (the Builder), king of Georgia (d. 1125)
- Leopold III (the Good), margrave of Austria (d. 1136)
- Meng, empress of the Song Dynasty (d. 1131)
Deaths
- April 21 – Alexander II, pope of the Catholic Church
- June 15 – Go-Sanjō, emperor of Japan (b. 1032)
- December 20 – Dominic of Silos, Spanish abbot (b. 1000)
- Anthony of Kiev, Russian monk and saint (b. 983)
- Badis ibn Habus, Berber king of the Taifa of Granada
- Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
- Zhou Dunyi, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1017)
References
- ^ Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [35]. JSTOR 3679149.
- ^ Canellas, Angel (1951). "Las Cruzadas de Aragon en el Siglo XI". Archived from the original on February 25, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)