1016
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This article is about the year 1016. For the number (and other uses), see 1016 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s |
| Years: | 1013 1014 1015 – 1016 – 1017 1018 1019 |
| 1016 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1016 MXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1769 |
| Armenian calendar | 465 ԹՎ ՆԿԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5766 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -828–-827 |
| Bengali calendar | 423 |
| Berber calendar | 1966 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1560 |
| Burmese calendar | 378 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6524–6525 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月十九日 (3652/3712-11-19) — to —
丙辰年十一月三十日(3653/3713-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 732–733 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1008–1009 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4776–4777 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1072–1073 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 938–939 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4117–4118 |
| Holocene calendar | 11016 |
| Iranian calendar | 394–395 |
| Islamic calendar | 406–407 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3349 |
| Minguo calendar | 896 before ROC 民前896年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1559 |
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Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Emperor Go-Ichijō succeeds Emperor Sanjō on the throne of Japan.
- Earthquakes partly destroy the Dome of the Rock.
[edit] Europe
- October 18 – Battle of Ashingdon: The Danes under Canute the Great defeat the English under Edmund Ironside.
- November 30 – After Edmund's death, Canute is left as the sole ruler of England.
- George Tsul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine–Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.
- Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries. Unwillingly Melo triggers the rise of the Norman rule over Italy.[1]
- The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardegna, in particular Porto Torres and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Denia, Mujahid al-Amiri al-Muwaffaq.[2]
- Edmund II is king of England after Ethelred's death.
- Battle of Brentford: Edmund II gains a temporary victory over Canute the Great.
- Canute of Denmark and Edmund II divide England.
- Battle of Nesjar (Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over Sveinn Hakonarson.
[edit] Births
- July 26 – Duke Casimir I of Poland (Polish: Kazimierz I Odnowiciel)
- Harold Harefoot (d. 1040)
[edit] Deaths
- April 23 – Ethelred the Unready, King of England
- November 30 – Edmund II, King of England
- Emperor Sanjō of Japan
- Badis ibn Mansur, third ruler of the Zirid dynaty in North Africa.
[edit] References
- ^ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 0415939305. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1piMMqjAf1MC&dq=gran+tavola+bonsignori&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
- ^ Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia. Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 33. ISBN 88-8289-529-7.
