1083

1083 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1083
MLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita1836
Armenian calendar532
ԹՎ ՇԼԲ
Assyrian calendar5833
Balinese saka calendar1004–1005
Bengali calendar489–490
Berber calendar2033
English Regnal year17 Will. 1 – 18 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1627
Burmese calendar445
Byzantine calendar6591–6592
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3780 or 3573
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3781 or 3574
Coptic calendar799–800
Discordian calendar2249
Ethiopian calendar1075–1076
Hebrew calendar4843–4844
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1139–1140
 - Shaka Samvat1004–1005
 - Kali Yuga4183–4184
Holocene calendar11083
Igbo calendar83–84
Iranian calendar461–462
Islamic calendar475–476
Japanese calendarEihō 3
(永保3年)
Javanese calendar987–988
Julian calendar1083
MLXXXIII
Korean calendar3416
Minguo calendar829 before ROC
民前829年
Nanakshahi calendar−385
Seleucid era1394/1395 AG
Thai solar calendar1625–1626
Tibetan calendarཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Water-Dog)
1209 or 828 or 56
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Water-Boar)
1210 or 829 or 57
Alfonso VI of León and Castile (r. 1077–1109)

Year 1083 (MLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • January 6 – A Castilian army, under Count Gonzalo Salvadórez and his son-in-law Ramiro Garcés, Lord of Calahorra, child of the late King García Sánchez III of Pamplona, enters the surrendered bastion of Rueda, but are then treacherously set upon and killed. Gonzalo, Ramiro, and Ramiro's illegitimate half-brother Sancho Garcés are among the many nobles to lose their lives, in what will be remembered as the 'disaster' or 'treachery of Rueda'.[1]
  • Summer – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor besieges Pope Gregory VII in Castel Sant'Angelo at Rome.
  • October – While Robert Guiscard is in Italy, emperor Alexios I Komnenos retakes territory previously lost to the Normans, including the town of Kastoria. Several Normans, including Peter Aliphas, switch sides to the Byzantines.[2][3]
  • Reconquista: Castilian forces under Alfonso VI reconquer Talavera de la Reina in the Taifa of Toledo (modern Spain).
  • King Sancho Ramírez of Pamplona and Aragon, conquers Graus (located in the Pyrenees).
  • King William the Conqueror imprisons his half-brother Odo of Bayeux for planning a military expedition to Italy.

Africa

Births

  • December 1Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess (d. 1153)
  • Florine of Burgundy, French noblewoman and crusader (d. 1097)
  • Li Gang, Chinese politician and Grand Chancellor (d. 1140)
  • Qadi Iyad, Almoravid imam and chief judge (qadi) (d. 1149)
  • Raymond du Puy, French knight and Grand Master (d. 1160)
  • Shin Panthagu, Burmese Buddhist monk and primate (d. 1174)
  • Viacheslav I Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1154)
  • Approximate date
    • Jindřich Zdík (or Henry Zdík), bishop of Olomouc (d. 1150)
    • Otto IV, count palatine of Bavaria (approximate date)

Deaths

  • January 6
    • Gonzalo Salvadórez, Spanish nobleman
    • Ramiro Garcés, Spanish nobleman
    • Sancho Garcés, Spanish nobleman
  • January 11 – Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria
  • September 2 – Munjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler (b. 1019)
  • November 2 – Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England
  • December 5 – Sunjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler (b. 1047)
  • Adelelm of Jumièges, Norman monk and abbot
  • Basil Apokapes (or Apocapes), Byzantine general
  • Ermengarde of Tonnerre, French noblewoman
  • Nicodemus of Palermo, Italian bishop and saint
  • Touzi Yiqing, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1032)
  • Zeng Gong, Chinese scholar and historian (b. 1019)
  • Approximate date – Theodora Doukaina Selvo, Venetian dogaressa (b. 1058)

References

  1. ^ Martínez Diez, Gonzalo (2007). El Cid histórico (in Spanish), p. 137. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. ISBN 978-84-08-07165-5.
  2. ^ Venning, Timothy; Harris, Jonathan (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Springer. p. 416. ISBN 9780230505865.
  3. ^ Venning, Timothy; Frankopan, Peter (2015). A Chronology of the Crusades. Routledge. ISBN 9781317496434.
  4. ^ Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.