1048
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 | |
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| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1048 MXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1801 |
| Armenian calendar | 497 ԹՎ ՆՂԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -796 – -795 |
| Berber calendar | 1998 |
| 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 | 1103 – 1104 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 970 – 971 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4149 – 4150 |
| Holocene calendar | 11048 |
| Iranian calendar | 426 – 427 |
| Islamic calendar | 439 – 440 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3381 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1591 |
The year 1048 AD includes the following events:
[edit] Events
- The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.
- 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.
- September 10 or 18 – Battle of Kapetrou: Seljuks defeat a force of Byzantines and Georgians.
[edit] Births
- May 18—Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1123)
- May 25—Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
- Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1118)
- June 16—Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi and Sufie writer
[edit] Deaths
- August 9—Pope Damasus II
- December 13—Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
