1016

1016 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1016
MXVI
Ab urbe condita1769
Armenian calendar465
ԹՎ ՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar5766
Balinese saka calendar937–938
Bengali calendar422–423
Berber calendar1966
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1560
Burmese calendar378
Byzantine calendar6524–6525
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3713 or 3506
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3714 or 3507
Coptic calendar732–733
Discordian calendar2182
Ethiopian calendar1008–1009
Hebrew calendar4776–4777
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1072–1073
 - Shaka Samvat937–938
 - Kali Yuga4116–4117
Holocene calendar11016
Igbo calendar16–17
Iranian calendar394–395
Islamic calendar406–407
Japanese calendarChōwa 5
(長和5年)
Javanese calendar918–919
Julian calendar1016
MXVI
Korean calendar3349
Minguo calendar896 before ROC
民前896年
Nanakshahi calendar−452
Seleucid era1327/1328 AG
Thai solar calendar1558–1559
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
1142 or 761 or −11
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1143 or 762 or −10
Battle of Assandun: King Edmund II (left) is defeated by forces of Cnut the Great.

Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson, confirming his status as king of Norway.
  • April 23Æthelred the Unready, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside".[1]
  • Summer – Battle of Brentford (near London): Edmund Ironside defeats the Danes under King Cnut.[2]
  • July 6 – Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley.[3]
  • October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of Wessex.[1]
  • November 30 – Edmund II dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.[1]
  • The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardinia, in particular Porto Torres, and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Dénia, Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī.[4]
  • Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.[5]
  • Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine EmpireKievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.

Arabian Empire

  • January 7 – Fath al-Qal'i, governor of the Citadel of Aleppo, revolts against Emir Mansur ibn Lu'lu', forcing him to flee. Fath accepts an agreement with Salih ibn Mirdas and takes control of Aleppo.

Asia

  • March 10 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan abdicates the throne after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old cousin Go-Ichijō as the 68th emperor of Japan. Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed regent.
  • Japanese poet Koshikibu no Naishi (lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress Shōshi) and her husband Fujiwara no Kiminari (son of Michinaga) have a son, but the couple is not accepted because of the social gap between them.[6]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ a b c Williams 2005.
  2. ^ Palmer & Palmer 1992.
  3. ^ Bradbury 2004.
  4. ^ Benvenuti 1985.
  5. ^ Kleinhenz 2010.
  6. ^ "Koshikibu no Naishi", Mypaedia, Hitachi Systems & Services, 2007.

Sources

  • Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia (in Italian). Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 33. ISBN 978-8882895297.
  • Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.
  • Bradbury, Jim (2004). The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare. ISBN 0-415-22126-9.