1048

This article is about the year 1048.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1045 1046 1047 – 1048 – 1049 1050 1051

1048 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1048 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1048 MXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1801
Armenian calendar	497 ԹՎ ՆՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5798
Bahá'í calendar	-796–-795
Bengali calendar	455
Berber calendar	1998
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1592
Burmese calendar	410
Byzantine calendar	6556–6557
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十二月十三日 (3684/3744-12-13) — to — 戊子年十一月廿四日 (3685/3745-11-24)
Coptic calendar	764–765
Ethiopian calendar	1040–1041
Hebrew calendar	4808–4809
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1104–1105
- Shaka Samvat	970–971
- Kali Yuga	4149–4150
Holocene calendar	11048
Iranian calendar	426–427
Islamic calendar	439–440
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3381
Minguo calendar	864 before ROC 民前864年
Thai solar calendar	1591

Year 1048 (MXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• September 10 or September 18 – Battle of Kapetrou: Seljuks defeat a force of Byzantines and Georgians.

Europe

• The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.
• Failed Byzantine attempt to reconquer Malta.

By topic

Religion

• July 16 – Pope Benedict IX is driven from Rome, ending his third and final pontificate.
• July 17 – Pope Damasus II succeeds Pope Benedict IX as the 151st pope.

Births

• May 18 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1123)
• May 25 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
• June 16 – Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi and Sufie writer
• Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1118)

Deaths

• August 9 – Pope Damasus II
• December 13 – Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)