1062

1062 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1062
MLXII
Ab urbe condita1815
Armenian calendar511
ԹՎ ՇԺԱ
Assyrian calendar5812
Balinese saka calendar983–984
Bengali calendar468–469
Berber calendar2012
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1606
Burmese calendar424
Byzantine calendar6570–6571
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3759 or 3552
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
3760 or 3553
Coptic calendar778–779
Discordian calendar2228
Ethiopian calendar1054–1055
Hebrew calendar4822–4823
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1118–1119
 - Shaka Samvat983–984
 - Kali Yuga4162–4163
Holocene calendar11062
Igbo calendar62–63
Iranian calendar440–441
Islamic calendar453–454
Japanese calendarKōhei 5
(康平5年)
Javanese calendar965–966
Julian calendar1062
MLXII
Korean calendar3395
Minguo calendar850 before ROC
民前850年
Nanakshahi calendar−406
Seleucid era1373/1374 AG
Thai solar calendar1604–1605
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་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.
  • The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).[2]
  • Marrakesh is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.

By topic

Religion


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 20Bao 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.