1061

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1040s 1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s
Years:	1058 1059 1060 1061 1062 1063 1064

1061 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1061 MLXI
Ab urbe condita	1814
Armenian calendar	510 ԹՎ ՇԺ
Assyrian calendar	5811
Balinese saka calendar	982–983
Bengali calendar	468
Berber calendar	2011
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1605
Burmese calendar	423
Byzantine calendar	6569–6570
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal  Rat) 3758 or 3551     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal  Ox) 3759 or 3552
Coptic calendar	777–778
Discordian calendar	2227
Ethiopian calendar	1053–1054
Hebrew calendar	4821–4822
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1117–1118
- Shaka Samvat	982–983
- Kali Yuga	4161–4162
Holocene calendar	11061
Igbo calendar	61–62
Iranian calendar	439–440
Islamic calendar	452–453
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 4 (康平４年)
Javanese calendar	964–965
Julian calendar	1061 MLXI
Korean calendar	3394
Minguo calendar	851 before ROC 民前851年
Nanakshahi calendar	−407
Seleucid era	1372/1373 AG
Thai solar calendar	1603–1604
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1187 or 806 or 34     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1188 or 807 or 35

Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)

Year 1061 ( MLXI ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – Robert de Grandmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I), and eleven monks of the Abbey of Saint-Evroul, are banished by Duke William II (the Bastard) of Normandy for violence, and travel to Southern Italy. ^[1]
• Summer – Norman forces led by Duke Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger I invade Sicily. They land unseen during the night and surprise the Saracen army. Guiscard conquers Messina and marches into central Sicily.
• June 28 – Count Floris I is ambushed on a retreat from Zaltbommel and killed by German troops at Nederhemert. Most of West Frisia (later part of the County of Holland) is conquered and annexed by the Holy Roman Empire.
• Sosols (a tribe in Estonia) destroy the Kievan Rus' fortification of Yuryev in Tartu, and carry out a raid on Pskov. ^[2]

Africa

• Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.

By topic

Religion

• July 27 – Pope Nicholas II dies after a 2-year pontificate at Florence. He is succeeded by Alexander II as the 156th pope of the Catholic Church in Rome.
• The Speyer Cathedral is consecrated in Speyer (modern Germany).

Births

• Al-Maziri, Zirid imam, jurist and scholar (d. 1141)
• Al-Tughrai, Persian poet and alchemist (d. 1121)
• Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia and Calabria (or 1060)
• Wuyashu, chieftain of the Wanyan tribe (d. 1113)

Deaths

• January 28 – Spytihněv II, duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• May 5 – Humbert of Moyenmoutier, French cardinal
• June 28 – Floris I, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie)
• July 13 – Beatrice I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1037)
• July 27 – Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church
• Adelmann, bishop of Brescia (approximate date)
• Ali ibn Ridwan, Arab physician and astronomer (approximate date)
• Burgheard, English nobleman
• Burkhard I, Lord of Zollern (or Burchardus), German nobleman, killed
• Conrad III, Duke of Carinthia (or Konrad), German nobleman
• Gardizi, Persian geographer and historian
• Henry I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (or Heinrich), German nobleman
• Rajaraja Narendra, Indian ruler (b. 1022)
• Rúaidhri Ua Flaithbheartaigh, Irish king of Iar Connacht, killed
• Song Qi (Zijing), Chinese statesman and historian (b. 998)

References

1. John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South 1016–1130 (London: Solitaire Books, 1981), pp. 146–47.
2. Mäesalu, Ain (2012). "Could Kedipiv in East-Slavonic Chronicles be Keava hill fort?" (PDF). Estonian Journal of Archaeology. 1: 199. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2016.