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1016 by topic |
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Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Gregorian calendar | 1016 MXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1769 |
Armenian calendar | 465 ԹՎ ՆԿԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5766 |
Balinese saka calendar | 937–938 |
Bengali calendar | 423 |
Berber calendar | 1966 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1560 |
Burmese calendar | 378 |
Byzantine calendar | 6524–6525 |
Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3713 or 3506 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3714 or 3507 |
Coptic calendar | 732–733 |
Discordian calendar | 2182 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1008–1009 |
Hebrew calendar | 4776–4777 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1072–1073 |
- Shaka Samvat | 937–938 |
- Kali Yuga | 4116–4117 |
Holocene calendar | 11016 |
Igbo calendar | 16–17 |
Iranian calendar | 394–395 |
Islamic calendar | 406–407 |
Japanese calendar | Chōwa 5 (長和5年) |
Javanese calendar | 918–919 |
Julian calendar | 1016 MXVI |
Korean calendar | 3349 |
Minguo calendar | 896 before ROC 民前896年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −452 |
Seleucid era | 1327/1328 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1558–1559 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1142 or 761 or −11 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1143 or 762 or −10 |
Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- January 7 – Mansur ibn Lu'lu' is ousted as Emir of Aleppo.
- March 10 – Emperor Sanjō abdicates the throne of Japan and soon afterwards is succeeded by his cousin Emperor Go-Ichijō, aged about 8.
- Earthquakes partly destroy the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Europe
- March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson confirming his status as King of Norway.
- April 23 – Æthelred, King of England, dies, and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside.[1]
- c. May – Battle of Brentford (near London): King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut, Prince of Denmark.[2]
- October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only.[1]
- November 30 – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.[1]
- The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardinia, in particular Porto Torres, and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Dénia, Mujāhid al-‘Āmirī.[3]
- Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.[4]
- Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.
Births
- April 3 – Emperor Xingzong of Liao (d. 1055)
- June 9 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler or Korea (d. 1034)
- July 25 – Duke Casimir I the Restorer (Kazimierz I Odnowiciel), ruler of Poland (d. 1058)
- August 24 – Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese Empress Consort (d. 1039)
- November – García Sánchez III of Navarre (d. 1054)
- Edward the Exile – son of King Edmund Ironside of England (d. 1057)
- Empress Cao – Song Dynasty Empress Consort (d. 1079)
- Không Lộ – Vietnamese Zen master (d. 1094)
- Svein Knutsson – King of Norway (d. 1035)
Deaths
- April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, King of England (b. c.968)
- November 30 – Edmund Ironside, King of England
- Badis ibn Mansur, third ruler of the Zirid dynasty in North Africa
References
Sources
- Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia (in Italian). Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 33. ISBN 978-8882895297.
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- Kleinhenz, Christopher, ed. (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-0415939294.
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- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.
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- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0304357307.
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