1052

1052 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1052
MLII
Ab urbe condita1805
Armenian calendar501
ԹՎ ՇԱ
Assyrian calendar5802
Balinese saka calendar973–974
Bengali calendar458–459
Berber calendar2002
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1596
Burmese calendar414
Byzantine calendar6560–6561
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3749 or 3542
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3750 or 3543
Coptic calendar768–769
Discordian calendar2218
Ethiopian calendar1044–1045
Hebrew calendar4812–4813
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1108–1109
 - Shaka Samvat973–974
 - Kali Yuga4152–4153
Holocene calendar11052
Igbo calendar52–53
Iranian calendar430–431
Islamic calendar443–444
Japanese calendarEishō 7
(永承7年)
Javanese calendar955–956
Julian calendar1052
MLII
Korean calendar3385
Minguo calendar860 before ROC
民前860年
Nanakshahi calendar−416
Seleucid era1363/1364 AG
Thai solar calendar1594–1595
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Iron-Hare)
1178 or 797 or 25
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Water-Dragon)
1179 or 798 or 26
Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (left), receives her Encomium (British Library).

Year 1052 (MLII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

Africa

  • Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.[1]

By topic

Religion

  • Byōdō-in, a Japanese Buddhist temple (located in the Kyoto Prefecture), changes its name by order of Fujiwara no Yorimichi.

Births

  • May 23Philip I ("the Amorous"), king of France (d. 1108)
  • September/October – Conrad II ("the Child"), duke of Bavaria (d. 1055)
  • Agnes of Aquitaine, countess of Savoy (approximate date)
  • Dirk V, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie) (d. 1091)
  • Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England (d. c. 1126) (approximate date)
  • Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)
  • Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop and saint (d. 1121)
  • Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)

Deaths

  • March 6 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (twice), Denmark and Norway (b. 984)
  • May 6 – Boniface III, Italian prince and margrave (assassinated)
  • June 2/4 – assassinations
    • Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman
    • Pandulf III of Salerno, Lombard prince
    • Pandulf of Capaccio, Lombard nobleman
  • June 19 – Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty (b. 989)
  • October 4 – Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1020)
  • October 27 – Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir[2]
  • December 14 – Aaron Scotus, Irish abbot and musician
  • Amadeus I, count of Savoy (approximate date)
  • Halinard, French archbishop (approximate date)
  • Hugh II, count of Ponthieu (also lord of Abbeville)
  • Rodulf, Norman missionary bishop and abbot
  • Sweyn Godwinson (or Swein), English nobleman
  • Xu Daoning, Chinese painter (approximate date)
  • Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk

References

  1. ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 53.
  2. ^ Zetterstéen, K. V. (1927). "Ḳarwās̲h̲". The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume II: E–K. Leiden and London: E. J. Brill. pp. 781–782. doi:10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_3957.