1034

1034 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1034 MXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1787
Armenian calendar	483 ԹՎ ՆՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	5784
Balinese saka calendar	955–956
Bengali calendar	440–441
Berber calendar	1984
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1578
Burmese calendar	396
Byzantine calendar	6542–6543
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water  Rooster) 3731 or 3524     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood  Dog) 3732 or 3525
Coptic calendar	750–751
Discordian calendar	2200
Ethiopian calendar	1026–1027
Hebrew calendar	4794–4795
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1090–1091
- Shaka Samvat	955–956
- Kali Yuga	4134–4135
Holocene calendar	11034
Igbo calendar	34–35
Iranian calendar	412–413
Islamic calendar	425–426
Japanese calendar	Chōgen 7 (長元７年)
Javanese calendar	936–938
Julian calendar	1034 MXXXIV
Korean calendar	3367
Minguo calendar	878 before ROC 民前878年
Nanakshahi calendar	−434
Seleucid era	1345/1346 AG
Thai solar calendar	1576–1577
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1160 or 779 or 7     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1161 or 780 or 8

The murder of Romanos III in his bath.

Year 1034 ( MXXXIV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• April 11 – Emperor Romanos III (Argyros) is drowned in his bath, at the urging of his wife Zoë, who marries her chamberlain, and elevates him to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, as Michael IV. Romanos is buried in the Church of St. Mary Peribleptos in Constantinople. ^[1]

Europe

• Spring – Emperor Conrad II (the Elder) leads a German military expedition via the Rhone River into Burgundy, while two Italian armies led by Archbishop Aribert and Boniface III (margrave of Tuscany) head over the Alps and join with Count Humbert I at Great St. Bernard Pass.
• March – Conrad II converges his armies on Lake Lemano and defeats Count Odo II in battle at Geneva (modern Switzerland). For his assistance, Conrad grants Humbert I with the Burgundian county of Maurienne.
• May – King Mieszko II dies after a 6-year reign (probably killed as a result of a conspiracy) and is succeeded by his 17-year-old son Casimir I (the Restorer). A violent revolt spreads throughout Poland.
• King Sancho III (the Great) of Pamplona captures León, after defeating a string of rivals. His rule now extends from the borders of Galicia in the west to the County of Barcelona in the east.
• Summer – Poland is broken up into regions (during the so-called Pagan Reaction). Queen Richeza, Casimir I and his sisters Ryksa and Gertruda are driven into exile in Germany. ^[2]
• November 25 – King Malcolm II dies in battle at Glamis. He is succeeded by Duncan I, son of his eldest daughter, rather than Macbeth, who is possibly another grandson of his. ^[3]
• In Al-Andalus, benefiting from the weakening of the Muslim central authority, the count of Portugal, Gonçalo Maia, conquers Montemor-o-Velho (approximate date).
• Franche-Comté becomes subject to the Holy Roman Empire.

Africa

• A Pisan and Genovese fleet attack Bona (modern Annaba) on the Maghribi coast (modern Algeria). The city is occupied for one year. ^[4]

Births

• Joscelin I de Courtenay, French nobleman (House of Courtenay)
• Khön Könchok Gyalpo, founder of Sakya Monastery (d. 1102)

Deaths

• February 21 – Hawise of Normandy, French duchess and regent
• March 21 – Ezzo (or Ehrenfried), German count palatine
• April 11 – Romanos III (Argyros), Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
• October 31 – Deokjong, ruler of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 1016)
• November 9 – Oldřich (or Odalric), duke of Bohemia
• November 19 – Theodoric II, margrave of Lower Lusatia
• November 25 – Malcolm II, king of Alba (Scotland)
• December 8 – Æthelric (or Brihtmær), English bishop
• Adémar de Chabannes, French monk and historian
• Ali ibn Hasan (Ali-Tegin), Karakhanid ruler ( khagan )
• Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, Norse-Gaelic king of Dublin
• Bernard Roger, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Manuchihr I, Persian ruler ( shah ) of Shirvan
• Matilda of Franconia, daughter of Conrad II
• Mieszko II (St. Lambert), king of Poland
• Qian Weiyan, Chinese politician and poet
• Salim ibn Mustafad, Mirdasid rebel leader
• Samuel ben Hofni, Jewish rabbi and writer

References

1. Norwich, John (1991). Byzantium: the Apogee, pp. 279–80. London: Penguin. ISBN   0-670-80252-2.
2. Richard Brzezinski (1998). History of Poland: Old Poland, the Piast Dynasty, p. 18. ISBN   83-7212-019-6.
3. Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, Adam and Charles Black. Published 1861, Scotland.
4. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 50.