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Year 1028 (MXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian ca
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1028 by topic Leaders Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments
November 11 – Emperor Constantine VIII dies at Constantinople after a 3-year reign. On his deathbed, and without a male heir, Constantine arranges that his eldest daughter, Zoë Porphyrogenita, succeeds him and marries the Byzantine nobleman, Romanos III (Argyros).1028 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1028
MXXVIIIAb urbe condita 1781 Armenian calendar 477
ԹՎ ՆՀԷAssyrian calendar 5778 Balinese saka calendar 949–950 Bengali calendar 435 Berber calendar 1978 English Regnal year N/A Buddhist calendar 1572 Burmese calendar 390 Byzantine calendar 6536–6537 Chinese calendar 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3725 or 3518
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戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3726 or 3519Coptic calendar 744–745 Discordian calendar 2194 Ethiopian calendar 1020–1021 Hebrew calendar 4788–4789 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1084–1085 - Shaka Samvat 949–950 - Kali Yuga 4128–4129 Holocene calendar 11028 Igbo calendar 28–29 Iranian calendar 406–407 Islamic calendar 418–419 Japanese calendar Manju 5 / Chōgen 1
(長元元年)Javanese calendar 930–931 Julian calendar 1028
MXXVIIIKorean calendar 3361 Minguo calendar 884 before ROC
民前884年Nanakshahi calendar −440 Seleucid era 1339/1340 AG Thai solar calendar 1570–1571 Tibetan calendar 阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1154 or 773 or 1
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阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1155 or 774 or 2- November 15 – Zoë Porphyrogenita takes the throne as empress consort. Her husband, Romanos III (age 60) becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
England
- Cnut the Great sails from England or Great Brittan to Norway with a fleet of 50 ships. He defeats Olaf Haraldsson and is crowned king of Norway. Cnut becomes the sole ruler of England, Denmark and part of Sweden (known as the Danish North Sea Empire).
Europe
- April 14 – The 10-year-old Henry III (the Black), son of Emperor Conrad II (the Elder), is elected and crowned king of Germany in Aachen Cathedral by Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne.
- King Sancho Garcés III (the Great) conquers Castile (modern Spain) (approximate date).
Births
- February 17 – Al-Juwayni, Persian scholar and imam (d. 1085)
- Burchard II (or Bucco), bishop of Halberstadt (approximate date)
- Nuño Álvarez de Carazo, Spanish nobleman and warrior (d. 1054)
- Qutb Shah, Persian Sufi religious leader and scholar (d. 1099)
- Robert of Molesme, founder of the Cistercian Order (d. 1111)
- William I (the Conqueror), king of England (d. 1087)
Deaths
- January 3 – Fujiwara no Michinaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 966)
- August 7 – Alfonso V (the Noble), king of León (Spain) (b. 994)
- November 11 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960)
- Lin Bu (or Junfu), Chinese poet and calligrapher (b. 967)
- Liu Wenzhi, Chinese official of the Song Dynasty (b. 964)
- Lý Công Uẩn, founder of the Vietnamese Lý Dynasty (b. 974)
- Qawam al-Dawla, Buyid governor and ruler of Kerman (b. 1000)
- Sayyida Shirin, Bavandid princess and wife of Fakhr al-Dawla
- William of Bellême, French nobleman (House of Bellême)
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