1017

This article is about the year 1017. For the number (and other uses), see 1017 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1014 1015 1016 – 1017 – 1018 1019 1020

1017 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1017 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1017 MXVII
Ab urbe condita	1770
Armenian calendar	466 ԹՎ ՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	5767
Bahá'í calendar	-827–-826
Bengali calendar	424
Berber calendar	1967
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1561
Burmese calendar	379
Byzantine calendar	6525–6526
Chinese calendar	丙辰年十二月初一日 (3653/3713-12-1) — to — 丁巳年十二月十一日 (3654/3714-12-11)
Coptic calendar	733–734
Ethiopian calendar	1009–1010
Hebrew calendar	4777–4778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1073–1074
- Shaka Samvat	939–940
- Kali Yuga	4118–4119
Holocene calendar	11017
Iranian calendar	395–396
Islamic calendar	407–408
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3350
Minguo calendar	895 before ROC 民前895年
Thai solar calendar	1560

Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Canute the Great is acclaimed king of England.
• England is divided into the earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.
• Canute marries Emma of Normandy.
• Melus of Bari rebels, supported by Norman mercenaries. He is victorious in three pitched battles against the Byzantines.
• Kiev burns.
• The construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is started (approximate date).

Asia

• Abd-ar-Rahman IV succeeds Suleiman II as Umayyad caliph.
• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion. During the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Africa

• Sunni revolt of Kairouan against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.

Births

• October 29 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher in Song Dynasty China (d. 1073)

Deaths

• July 6 – Genshin, Japanese schoolar (b. 942)
• Abd-ar-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph
• Eadric Streona, Earldorman of Mercia
• Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (b. 965)
• Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona, (b. 972)