1062

1062 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1062 MLXII
Ab urbe condita	1815
Armenian calendar	511 ԹՎ ՇԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5812
Balinese saka calendar	983–984
Bengali calendar	468–469
Berber calendar	2012
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1606
Burmese calendar	424
Byzantine calendar	6570–6571
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal  Ox) 3759 or 3552     — to — 壬寅年 (Water  Tiger) 3760 or 3553
Coptic calendar	778–779
Discordian calendar	2228
Ethiopian calendar	1054–1055
Hebrew calendar	4822–4823
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1118–1119
- Shaka Samvat	983–984
- Kali Yuga	4162–4163
Holocene calendar	11062
Igbo calendar	62–63
Iranian calendar	440–441
Islamic calendar	453–454
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 5 (康平５年)
Javanese calendar	965–966
Julian calendar	1062 MLXII
Korean calendar	3395
Minguo calendar	850 before ROC 民前850年
Nanakshahi calendar	−406
Seleucid era	1373/1374 AG
Thai solar calendar	1604–1605
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Iron-Ox) 1188 or 807 or 35     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 1189 or 808 or 36

Map of Wales during the reign of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (r. 1039–1063).

  Gruffydd ap Llywelyn's kingdom

Year 1062 ( MLXII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – Coup of Kaiserswerth: The 11-year-old King Henry IV is abducted, as a result of a conspiracy of German nobles led by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne. Henry's education and training is supervised by Anno, who acts as his regent and is called his magister (his "master" or "teacher"). Empress Agnes of Poitou (Henry's mother) resigns the throne, and Anno with the archbishops Siegfried I and Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place. ^[1]

Britain

• Winter – Harold Godwinson leads a successful campaign against King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He attacks and captures Rhuddlan Castle in northern Wales, but Gruffydd manages to escape.

Africa

• The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). ^[2]
• Marrakech is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.^{[ citation needed ]}

By topic

Religion

• Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem (modern Belgium). ^[3]

Births

• Bjørn Svendsen, Danish nobleman (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Moromichi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1099)
• Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)
• Nicephorus Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat

Deaths

• January 27 – Adelaide of Hungary, German duchess
• February 2 – Atenulf I, Lombard nobleman
• March 9 – Herbert II, French nobleman
• May 20 – Bao Zheng, Chinese politician (b. 999)
• October 22
  • Abe no Sadato, Japanese nobleman
  • Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese nobleman
• Abu Mansur Fulad Sutun, Buyid emir of Fars
• Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya (b. 1008)
• Al-Quda'i, Fatimid preacher and historian
• Emma of Provence, French noblewoman
• Geoffrey I, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
• Nissim ben Jacob, Tunisian Jewish rabbi (b. 990)
• William IV, count of Weimar and Orlamünde
• Ibn al-Timnah, Emir of Syracuse

References

1. Jonathan Riley-Smith (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume IV – Part II (c. 1024–c. 1198), p. 54. ISBN   978-0-521-41411-1.
2. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 55.
3. Weir, Alison (September 28, 2017). Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066–1167. Random House. ISBN   978-1-4735-2331-9.