1021

This article is about the year 1021. For the number (and other uses), see 1021 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	990s  1000s  1010s  – 1020s –  1030s  1040s  1050s
Years:	1018 1019 1020 – 1021 – 1022 1023 1024

1021 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1021 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1021 MXXI
Ab urbe condita	1774
Armenian calendar	470 ԹՎ ՆՀ
Assyrian calendar	5771
Bahá'í calendar	-823–-822
Bengali calendar	428
Berber calendar	1971
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1565
Burmese calendar	383
Byzantine calendar	6529–6530
Chinese calendar	庚申年十二月十六日 (3657/3717-12-16) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿五日 (3658/3718-11-25)
Coptic calendar	737–738
Ethiopian calendar	1013–1014
Hebrew calendar	4781–4782
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1077–1078
- Shaka Samvat	943–944
- Kali Yuga	4122–4123
Holocene calendar	11021
Iranian calendar	399–400
Islamic calendar	411–412
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	1021    MXXI
Korean calendar	3354
Minguo calendar	891 before ROC 民前891年
Thai solar calendar	1564

Year 1021 (MXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Last evidence of indigenous a Christian and non-arabophone culture in Tripolitania, Libya.

Europe

• The Moorish kingdom of Valencia becomes independent from the Ummayyad caliphate.

Asia

• Mahmud appoints Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.
• A Khitan princess is sent to marry into the Goryeo royal family, securing ties between the Koreans and the Liao Dynasty.
• The Song Dynasty Chinese capital city of Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this year; including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
• The Chola Empire invades Bengal.

Births

• Eudocia Macrembolitissa, empress of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X (d. 1096)
• Wang Anshi, Chinese reformer, statesman, economist, poet (d. 1086)

Deaths

• Tāriqu l-Ḥakīm, Sixth Fatimid Caliph of Egypt