1055
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This article is about the year 1055.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1020s 1030s 1040s – 1050s – 1060s 1070s 1080s |
| Years: | 1052 1053 1054 – 1055 – 1056 1057 1058 |
| 1055 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1055 MLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1808 |
| Armenian calendar | 504 ԹՎ ՇԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5805 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -789–-788 |
| Bengali calendar | 462 |
| Berber calendar | 2005 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1599 |
| Burmese calendar | 417 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6563–6564 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年十二月初一日 (3691/3751-12-1) — to —
乙未年十二月十一日(3692/3752-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 771–772 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1047–1048 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4815–4816 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1111–1112 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 977–978 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4156–4157 |
| Holocene calendar | 11055 |
| Iranian calendar | 433–434 |
| Islamic calendar | 446–447 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3388 |
| Minguo calendar | 857 before ROC 民前857年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1598 |
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Year 1055 (MLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Africa
- The Almoravids conquer Aoudaghost (present-day Mauritania).
[edit] Asia
- December 18 – The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad; Al-Malik al-Rahim is taken prisoner.
[edit] Europe
- January 11 – Theodora becomes reigning empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- October 24 – Ralph the Timid is defeated by the Welsh.
- Beginning of the campaign of Ferdinand I of Castile against al-Andalus. The king conquers Seia from the Christian allies of the muslim taifas.[1] In a drive to consolidate his southern border, he repopulates the city of Zamora with some of his Cantabrian (montañeses) subjects.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Art
- Construction on the Liaodi Pagoda in Hebei is complete, the tallest pagoda in Chinese history standing at a height of 84 m (275 ft) tall.
[edit] Religion
- April 13 – Pope Victor II succeeds Pope Leo IX as the 153rd pope.
- An abbey was set up at Tihany, Hungary by András (Andrew) I. The foundation charter was drawn up on the northern shore of Lake Balaton. This is the earliest written record extant in the Hungarian language.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 – Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
- May 26 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
- Princess Goda of England
[edit] References
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
