1059
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This article is about the year 1059.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1020s 1030s 1040s – 1050s – 1060s 1070s 1080s |
| Years: | 1056 1057 1058 – 1059 – 1060 1061 1062 |
| 1059 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1059 MLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1812 |
| Armenian calendar | 508 ԹՎ ՇԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5809 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -785–-784 |
| Bengali calendar | 466 |
| Berber calendar | 2009 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1603 |
| Burmese calendar | 421 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6567–6568 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月十五日 (3695/3755-12-15) — to —
己亥年十一月廿四日(3696/3756-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 775–776 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1051–1052 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4819–4820 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1115–1116 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 981–982 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4160–4161 |
| Holocene calendar | 11059 |
| Iranian calendar | 437–438 |
| Islamic calendar | 450–451 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3392 |
| Minguo calendar | 853 before ROC 民前853年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1602 |
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Year 1059 (MLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- January 24 – Pope Nicholas II succeeds Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope, installed in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
- August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.
- Anselm settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.
- The Lateran Council makes the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the election of popes.
- Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan, becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
- Peter Krešimir IV is crowned King of Croatia and Dalmatia
- Isaac I Comnenus resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his successor.
[edit] Births
- Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler of the First Crusade
