1020
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| 2nd millennium |
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| 1020 by topic |
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| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1020 MXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1773 |
| Armenian calendar | 469 ԹՎ ՆԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5770 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 941–942 |
| Bengali calendar | 426–427 |
| Berber calendar | 1970 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1564 |
| Burmese calendar | 382 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6528–6529 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3717 or 3510 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3718 or 3511 |
| Coptic calendar | 736–737 |
| Discordian calendar | 2186 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1012–1013 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4780–4781 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1076–1077 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 941–942 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4120–4121 |
| Holocene calendar | 11020 |
| Igbo calendar | 20–21 |
| Iranian calendar | 398–399 |
| Islamic calendar | 410–411 |
| Japanese calendar | Kannin 4 (寛仁４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 922–923 |
| Julian calendar | 1020 MXX |
| Korean calendar | 3353 |
| Minguo calendar | 892 before ROC 民前892年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −448 |
| Seleucid era | 1331/1332 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1562–1563 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1146 or 765 or −7 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1147 or 766 or −6 |
Year 1020 (MXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- Summer – Emperor Henry II conducts his third Italian military campaign. He makes plans to invade the south, but remains non-committal.
- June 15 – Byzantine troops under Catepan Basil Boioannes (supported by his ally Prince Pandulf IV) capture the fortress of Troia.
- The French city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded by King Robert II (the Pious).
- King Canute the Great codifies the laws of England (approximate date).
- King Gagik I of Armenia is succeeded by Hovhannes-Smbat III.
Births
- Almodis de la Marche, French noblewoman (d. 1071)
- Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent (d. 1076)
- Benno II, German bishop and architect (approximate date)
- Bernard of Menthon, French priest and saint (d. 1081)
- Conrad I (or Cuno), duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
- Filarete of Calabria, Sicilian saint (approximate date)
- Gonzalo Sánchez, Spanish nobleman (approximate date)
- Gunhilda of Denmark, German queen (approximate date)
- Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
- Hallvard Vebjørnsson, Norwegian saint (approximate date)
- Kunigunde of Altdorf, German noblewoman (approximate date)
- Maria of Gaeta, Italian noblewoman (approximate date)
- Osbern Giffard, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
- Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
- Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
- Su Song, Chinese statesman and scientist (d. 1101)
- Sweyn Godwinson, English nobleman (approximate date)
- Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1052)
- William I (the Great), count of Burgundy (d. 1087)
- William Busac, English nobleman (jure uxoris) (d. 1076)
- William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (approximate date)
- William of Poitiers, French priest and writer (d. 1090)
- Wulfhild of Norway, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1071)
- Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1077)
Deaths
- June 12 – Lyfing, archbishop of Canterbury[1]
- June 15 – Dattus (or Datto), Lombard rebel leader
- August 16 – Zhou Huaizheng, Chinese eunuch
- Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad, Muslim imam (b. 944)
- Al-Sijzi, Persian mathematician (approximate date)
- Bernard I (Taillefer), Spanish nobleman
- Bouchard II (the Bearded), French nobleman (b. 975)
- Einar Sigurdsson, Norse Viking nobleman
- Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author (b. 940)
- Gagik I, king of Bagratid Armenia (approximate date)
- Gerald I (Tranche-Lion), French nobleman
- Gojslav, king of Croatia (approximate date)
- Leif Ericson, Norse Viking explorer (approximate date)
- Melus of Bari, Lombard nobleman and rebel leader
- Radim Gaudentius, Polish archbishop (b. 970)
- Stephen I of Vermandois, French nobleman
- Trdat the Architect, Armenian chief architect
References
- ^ Pryde, E. B., ed. (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 9780521563505. Retrieved November 15, 2024.