1084

1084 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1084
MLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita1837
Armenian calendar533
ԹՎ ՇԼԳ
Assyrian calendar5834
Balinese saka calendar1005–1006
Bengali calendar490–491
Berber calendar2034
English Regnal year18 Will. 1 – 19 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1628
Burmese calendar446
Byzantine calendar6592–6593
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3781 or 3574
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3782 or 3575
Coptic calendar800–801
Discordian calendar2250
Ethiopian calendar1076–1077
Hebrew calendar4844–4845
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1140–1141
 - Shaka Samvat1005–1006
 - Kali Yuga4184–4185
Holocene calendar11084
Igbo calendar84–85
Iranian calendar462–463
Islamic calendar476–477
Japanese calendarEihō 4 / Ōtoku 1
(応徳元年)
Javanese calendar988–989
Julian calendar1084
MLXXXIV
Korean calendar3417
Minguo calendar828 before ROC
民前828年
Nanakshahi calendar−384
Seleucid era1395/1396 AG
Thai solar calendar1626–1627
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Water-Boar)
1210 or 829 or 57
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Rat)
1211 or 830 or 58
Map of the Norman expansion in Italy and Illyria during the rule of Robert Guiscard.

Year 1084 (MLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • March 31 – Emperor Henry IV besieges Rome and enters the city. He is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Antipope Clement III in Rome and receives the patrician authority.[1]
  • May – Sack of Rome: Duke Robert Guiscard leads a Norman army (36,000 men) north and enters Rome; the city is sacked, and Henry IV is forced to retreat.
  • Robert Guiscard returns with 150 warships in Illyria (modern Albania), and occupies Corfu and Kefalonia with the support of Ragusa and the Dalmatian city-states.
  • King Halsten Stenkilsson is killed and his brother Inge the Elder is deposed in Svealand (modern Sweden). Inge is replaced by his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn.

Seljuk Empire

  • The Seljuk Turks under Sultan Malik-Shah I conquer Byzantine Antioch, held by Philaretos Brachamios, an Armenian general, who seizes power as a usurper.

Asia

  • Sima Guang, Chinese chancellor and historian, with a group of scholars, completes the Zizhi Tongjian, a chronicle of universal history of China.
  • April 21 – King Kyansittha begins his reign as ruler of the Pagan Kingdom in Burma (modern Myanmar).[2]

By topic

Religion

  • Pope Gregory VII, who has been forced by the presence in Rome of Henry IV to retreat to the Castel Sant'Angelo, is freed by Robert Guiscard and restores papal authority in Rome.
  • Bruno of Cologne founds the Carthusian Order which includes both monks and nuns. He builds a hermitage in the French Alps.[3]
  • Building work starts on Worcester Cathedral in England, orchestrated by Bishop Wulfstan.

Births

  • August 1 – Heonjong, Korean king of Goryeo (d. 1097)
  • Alan I (le Noir), viscount of Rohan (d. 1147)
  • Ali ibn Yusuf, ruler of the Almoravids (d. 1143)
  • Bahram-Shah, ruler of the Ghaznavids (d. 1157)
  • Charles I (the Good), count of Flanders (d. 1127)
  • David I, king of Scotland (approximate date)
  • Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet and writer
  • Rainier, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
  • Rechungpa, Tibetan founder of the Kagyu school (d. 1161)
  • Wang, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (d. 1108)

Deaths

  • February 16 – Siegfried I, archbishop of Mainz
  • June 28 – Ekkehard of Huysburg, German abbot
  • October 10 – Gilla Pátraic, bishop of Dublin
  • November 20 – Otto II, margrave of Montferrat
  • Aghsartan I, Georgian king of Kakheti and Hereti
  • Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 1057)
  • Halsten Stenkilsson, king of Sweden (approximate date)
  • Herfast (or Arfast), Norman Lord Chancellor
  • Hoël II, duke of Brittany (House of Cornouaille)
  • Saw Lu, king of the Pagan Kingdom (b. 1049)

References

  1. ^ "Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  2. ^ E, Harvey G. (2000). History of Burma. Asian Educational Services. p. 36. ISBN 9788120613652.
  3. ^ "Carthusian religious order". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 8, 2018.