1051

This article is about the year 1051.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1048 1049 1050 – 1051 – 1052 1053 1054

1051 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1051 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1051 MLI
Ab urbe condita	1804
Armenian calendar	500 ԹՎ Շ
Assyrian calendar	5801
Bahá'í calendar	-793–-792
Bengali calendar	458
Berber calendar	2001
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1595
Burmese calendar	413
Byzantine calendar	6559–6560
Chinese calendar	庚寅年閏十一月十六日 (3687/3747-intercalary 11-16) — to — 辛卯年十一月廿六日 (3688/3748-11-26)
Coptic calendar	767–768
Ethiopian calendar	1043–1044
Hebrew calendar	4811–4812
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1107–1108
- Shaka Samvat	973–974
- Kali Yuga	4152–4153
Holocene calendar	11051
Iranian calendar	429–430
Islamic calendar	442–443
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3384
Minguo calendar	861 before ROC 民前861年
Thai solar calendar	1594

Year 1051 (MLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover. He returns the following year.
• Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.
• May 19 – Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.
• William of Normandy fights for his life and crown in Normandy.

Births

• Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England, 1066, after the Battle of Hastings
• Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths

• January 22 – Aelfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
• Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing