1070
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This article is about the year 1070.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1040s 1050s 1060s – 1070s – 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1067 1068 1069 – 1070 – 1071 1072 1073 |
| 1070 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1070 MLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1823 |
| Armenian calendar | 519 ԹՎ ՇԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5820 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -774–-773 |
| Bengali calendar | 477 |
| Berber calendar | 2020 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Will. 1 – 5 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1614 |
| Burmese calendar | 432 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6578–6579 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年閏十一月十六日 (3706/3766-intercalary 11-16) — to —
庚戌年十一月廿六日(3707/3767-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 786–787 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1062–1063 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4830–4831 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1126–1127 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 992–993 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4171–4172 |
| Holocene calendar | 11070 |
| Iranian calendar | 448–449 |
| Islamic calendar | 462–463 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3403 |
| Minguo calendar | 842 before ROC 民前842年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1613 |
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Year 1070 (MLXX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.
- Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completes the Kutadgu Bilig.
- Bergen, Norway is founded by the king Olav Kyrre. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.
- King Halsten of Sweden is deposed, with Håkan the Red becoming king in Gothenland and Anund Gårdske being chosen as king of Svealand.
- Abu Bakr Ibn-Umar founds Marrakesh.
- Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi starts the Xining Reforms (which last until 1085).
- The Temple of Literature is established in the capital of Vietnam.
- A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuk Turks across the Euphrates.
- Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.
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[edit] Deaths
- July 17 – Baldwin VI of Flanders (b. 1030)
