1036

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1010s 1020s 1030s 1040s 1050s
Years:	1033 1034 1035 1036 1037 1038 1039

1036 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1036 MXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1789
Armenian calendar	485 ԹՎ ՆՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5786
Balinese saka calendar	957–958
Bengali calendar	443
Berber calendar	1986
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1580
Burmese calendar	398
Byzantine calendar	6544–6545
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood  Pig) 3732 or 3672     — to — 丙子年 (Fire  Rat) 3733 or 3673
Coptic calendar	752–753
Discordian calendar	2202
Ethiopian calendar	1028–1029
Hebrew calendar	4796–4797
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1092–1093
- Shaka Samvat	957–958
- Kali Yuga	4136–4137
Holocene calendar	11036
Igbo calendar	36–37
Iranian calendar	414–415
Islamic calendar	427–428
Japanese calendar	Chōgen 9 (長元９年)
Javanese calendar	939–940
Julian calendar	1036 MXXXVI
Korean calendar	3369
Minguo calendar	876 before ROC 民前876年
Nanakshahi calendar	−432
Seleucid era	1347/1348 AG
Thai solar calendar	1578–1579
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1162 or 781 or 9     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1163 or 782 or 10

Gold coin of Al-Mustansir (r. 1036–1094)

Year 1036 ( MXXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
• A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island. ^[1]

England

• February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.

Africa

• June 13 – Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.

China

• The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia. ^[2]

Japan

• May 15 – Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of Emperor Conrad II (the Elder).
• The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.

Births

• Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086)
• Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127)
• Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk (d. 1060)
• Wang Shen, Chinese painter and poet (d. 1093 )

Deaths

• February 5 – Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
• March 17 – Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
• May 15 – Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1008)
• June 12 – Tedald (or Theobald), Italian bishop
• June 13 – al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
• August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne
• Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)
• Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard bishop
• Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
• Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
• Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress (b. 999)
• Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
• Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 973)

References

1. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie, cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 50.
2. History of Song (1346).