1086

1086 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1086
MLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita1839
Armenian calendar535
ԹՎ ՇԼԵ
Assyrian calendar5836
Balinese saka calendar1007–1008
Bengali calendar492–493
Berber calendar2036
English Regnal year20 Will. 1 – 21 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1630
Burmese calendar448
Byzantine calendar6594–6595
Chinese calendar乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3783 or 3576
    — to —
丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3784 or 3577
Coptic calendar802–803
Discordian calendar2252
Ethiopian calendar1078–1079
Hebrew calendar4846–4847
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1142–1143
 - Shaka Samvat1007–1008
 - Kali Yuga4186–4187
Holocene calendar11086
Igbo calendar86–87
Iranian calendar464–465
Islamic calendar478–479
Japanese calendarŌtoku 3
(応徳3年)
Javanese calendar990–991
Julian calendar1086
MLXXXVI
Korean calendar3419
Minguo calendar826 before ROC
民前826年
Nanakshahi calendar−382
Seleucid era1397/1398 AG
Thai solar calendar1628–1629
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Wood-Ox)
1212 or 831 or 59
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Tiger)
1213 or 832 or 60
Pope Victor III (c. 1026–1087)

Year 1086 (MLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • October 23 – Battle of Sagrajas: Spanish forces under King Alfonso VI ("the Brave") of Castile are defeated by the Moors and their allies, the Almoravids, who have been invited to help on orders by Emir Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad.
  • Siege of Syracuse (1086) – Norman forces under Count Roger I ("Bosso") conquer Syracuse, the last Muslim stronghold in Sicily.[1]

England

  • August 1 – King William the Conqueror calls for a meeting at Old Sarum, where he invites his major vassals and tenants-in-chief to swear allegiance to him. This is known as the Oath of Salisbury.
  • The Domesday Book is completed. Drawn up on the orders of William I; it describes in detail the landholdings and resources in England.
  • The population in England is estimated to be 1.25 million citizens with 10% living in boroughs.[2]

Seljuk Empire

  • Summer – Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, ruler of the Turks in Rum, is killed by Emir Tutush I in the battle of Ain Salm near Antioch. Suleiman's 7-year-old son Kilij Arslan I is captured and transferred as hostage to Isfahan (modern Iran).[3]
  • Sultan Malik-Shah I rebuilds the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf (modern Iraq), after it was destroyed by fire.

By topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

  • March 15 – Richilde, countess and regent of Flanders
  • March 18 – Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036)
  • May 21 – Wang Anshi, Chinese chancellor (b. 1021)
  • July 10 – Canute IV ("the Holy"), king of Denmark
  • July 14 – Toirdelbach Ua Briain, Irish king (b. 1009)
  • July 17 – García Ramírez, Aragonese bishop
  • August 8 – Conrad I, count of Luxembourg (b. 1040)
  • September 25 – William VIII, duke of Aquitaine
  • October 11 – Sima Guang, Chinese politician (b. 1019)
  • October 23 – Rodrigo Muñoz, Galician nobleman
  • December 25 – Judith of Bohemia, duchess of Poland
  • Gregory Pakourianos, Byzantine politician and general, killed in battle
  • Huizong, Chinese emperor (Western Xia) (b. 1060)
  • Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin, Irish monk and writer
  • Muhammad ibn Ammar, Moorish poet (b. 1031)
  • Odo I of Furneaux (or 'Eudes'), French nobleman (b. 1040)
  • Suleiman ibn Qutulmish, ruler of the Sultanate of Rum, killed in battle

References

  1. ^ Dobson, R. B. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge. p. 1349. ISBN 1-57958-282-6.
  2. ^ W. G. Hoskins. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; also Pelican Books, 1970.
  3. ^ Basan, Osman Aziz (2010). The Great Seljuqs: A History. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1136953934.
  4. ^ "Henry V | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 21, 2020.