1025

1025 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1025 MXXV
Ab urbe condita	1778
Armenian calendar	474 ԹՎ ՆՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	5775
Balinese saka calendar	946–947
Bengali calendar	431–432
Berber calendar	1975
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1569
Burmese calendar	387
Byzantine calendar	6533–6534
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood  Rat) 3722 or 3515     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood  Ox) 3723 or 3516
Coptic calendar	741–742
Discordian calendar	2191
Ethiopian calendar	1017–1018
Hebrew calendar	4785–4786
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1081–1082
- Shaka Samvat	946–947
- Kali Yuga	4125–4126
Holocene calendar	11025
Igbo calendar	25–26
Iranian calendar	403–404
Islamic calendar	415–416
Japanese calendar	Manju 2 (万寿２年)
Javanese calendar	927–928
Julian calendar	1025 MXXV
Korean calendar	3358
Minguo calendar	887 before ROC 民前887年
Nanakshahi calendar	−443
Seleucid era	1336/1337 AG
Thai solar calendar	1567–1568
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 1151 or 770 or −2     — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 1152 or 771 or −1

Emperor Basil II ("the Bulgar Slayer")

Year 1025 ( MXXV ) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 21 – Chifuru, daughter of powerful Japanese court official Fujiwara no Sanesuke (rival of Fujiwara no Michinaga) has her mogi ceremony. Sanesuke wants to make his daughter an imperial consort which causes the dislike of Empress Ishi (daughter of Michinaga) – eventually Kampaku (Regent) Fujiwara no Yorimichi prevents it. ^{[Unclear significance]}
• February 25 – (23 Dhu l-Hijja 415 AH) In the Fatimid Caliphate, Badr al-Dawla Nafidh leads a group of Egyptian soldiers and white slave soldiers from Cairo to end a black slave rebellion in the famine-stricken Egyptian capital, Fustat. ^[1]
• February – In what was the Kingdom of Israel, Fath al-Qal'i, the Fatimid Governor of Jerusalem, and Anushtakin al-Dizbari, the Governor of Palestine, make a successful assault on Ramla against Hassan ibn Mufarrij al-Jarrah, the leader of the Jarrahids of Syria.
• March 6 – In the Duchy of Aquitaine in France, the Aquitanian barons and prelates meet at Maillezais, to discuss the claims by William the Fat, son of the Duke of Aquitaine Guillaume le Grand (William the Great) to rule the vacant throne of the Kingdom of Italy (primarily Lombardy and Tuscany) within the Holy Roman Empire. ^[2] The title is eventually claimed by Conrad the Salic.
• March 7 – Herbert I, Count of Maine, is imprisoned at Saintes after being lured there by Fulk III, Count of Anjou, who had promised to reward Herbert with control of Saintes. ^[2] Herbert is held captive for two years before other nobles force his release.
• April 18 – Bolesław I the Brave is crowned in Gniezno as the first King of Poland. He takes advantage of the interregnum in Germany (see 1024) and receives permission for his coronation from Pope John XIX; however, he dies 60 days later.
• May – Ishoyahb IV, the unpopular Nicene Christian Patriarch of the Church of the East, dies in Baghdad after a five-year reign, leaving a vacancy that will not be filled until 1028. ^[3]
• June 17 – Mieszko II Lambert becomes the second King of Poland after the sudden death of his father, King Bolesław I the Brave ^[4]
• September – At the urging of Queen Constance of Arles, the three sons of King Robert II of France ("the Pious") revolt against their father – Hugh Magnus (heir and co-king), Henry I and Robert I, Duke of Burgundy start a civil war over power.
• December 15 – Byzantine Emperor Basil II ("Bulgar Slayer") dies in Constantinople after a 50-year reign. Never married, he is succeeded by his brother and co-emperor Constantine VIII, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Constantine calls the Sicilian invasion off. Catapan Basil Boioannes diverts the Byzantine expeditionary force already assembled on Calabria, to join the siege of Capua.
• December 25 – Mieszko II Lambert, son of Bolosław I, is formally crowned as king of Poland by the Archbishop Hippolytus in Gniezno Cathedral.

By place

Africa

• Emir Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis of the Zirid dynasty in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) attempts to retake Sicily but is unsuccessful. ^[5]

Asia

• Srivijaya, a Buddhist kingdom based in Sumatra, is attacked by Emperor Rajendra I of the Chola dynasty of southern India in a dispute over trading rights in Southeast Asia. It survives but declines in importance.
• Completion and publishing of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine .
• Japanese Kampaku (Regent) Fujiwara no Yorimichi holds horse racing at his mansion; the emperor attends.^{[Unclear significance]}

Births

• August 28 – Go-Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1068)
• Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1077)
• Anna Dalassene, Byzantine empress and regent
• Edith of Wessex, English queen (approximate date)
• Elisaveta Yaroslavna of Kiev, Norwegian queen
• Gerald of Sauve-Majeure, French abbot (d. 1095)
• Gertrude of Poland, Grand Princess of Kiev (d. 1108)
• John Italus, Byzantine philosopher (d. 1090)
• John of Lodi, Italian hermit and bishop (d. 1106)
• Lothair Udo II, German margrave (d. 1082)
• Nong Zhigao, Vietnamese chieftain of Nong
• Ruben I, Armenian prince (approximate date)
• Rudolf of Rheinfelden, duke of Swabia (d. 1080)
• Simon I, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Tora Torbergsdatter, Norwegian Viking queen
• William VIII, French nobleman (approximate date)

Deaths

• April 25 – Fujiwara no Seishi, Japanese empress consort (b. 972)
• May – Musharrif al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Iraq (b. 1003)
• June 17 – Bolesław I the Brave, king of Poland (b. 967)
• August 10 – Burchard of Worms, German bishop and writer
• August 11 – Kanshi, Japanese princess consort
• c. August 30 – Fujiwara no Kishi, Japanese crown princess, posthumously named empress, mother of Emperor Go-Reizei (b. 1007)
• September 17 – Hugh Magnus, king of France (b. 1007)
• September 29 – Louis I, count of Chiny and Verdun
• November
  • Koshikibu no Naishi, Japanese waka poet and lady-in-waiting (b. c.999)
  • Matilda, countess palatine of Lotharingia (b. 979)
• December 15 – Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958)
• December 22 – Wang Qinruo, Chinese chancellor
• December – Eustathius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
• Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad, Muslim theologian (b. 935)
• Mhic Mac Comhaltan Ua Cleirigh, Irish king
• Sabur ibn Ardashir, Persian statesman (b. 942)
• Watanabe no Tsuna, Japanese samurai (b. 953)

References

1. Yaacov Lev, Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the 7th to the 12th Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) p.166
2. B. S. Bachrach, Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) pp.173-175
3. David Wilmshurst, The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East (East & West Publishing Limited, 2011) p.201
4. Wolverton, Lisa (2009). The Chronicle of the Czechs. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. p. 104. ISBN   978-0-813-21713-0.
5. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p.50.