1018

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021

1018 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1018 MXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1771
Armenian calendar	467 ԹՎ ՆԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	5768
Balinese saka calendar	939–940
Bengali calendar	425
Berber calendar	1968
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1562
Burmese calendar	380
Byzantine calendar	6526–6527
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3715 or 3508     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3716 or 3509
Coptic calendar	734–735
Discordian calendar	2184
Ethiopian calendar	1010–1011
Hebrew calendar	4778–4779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1074–1075
- Shaka Samvat	939–940
- Kali Yuga	4118–4119
Holocene calendar	11018
Igbo calendar	18–19
Iranian calendar	396–397
Islamic calendar	408–409
Japanese calendar	Kannin 2 (寛仁２年)
Javanese calendar	920–921
Julian calendar	1018 MXVIII
Korean calendar	3351
Minguo calendar	894 before ROC 民前894年
Nanakshahi calendar	−450
Seleucid era	1329/1330 AG
Thai solar calendar	1560–1561
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1144 or 763 or −9     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1145 or 764 or −8

Year 1018 (MXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (liNk will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• December – Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire) invades Goryeo.
• A Chola dynasty army invades Lanka with 150,000 troops, the largest amphibious invasion force in history to this date.

Europe

• January 30 – The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, ending the German–Polish War (1002–1018).
• July 22–23 – Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, defeats Yaroslav the Wise in the Battle of the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novogrod, abandoning Kiev.
• July 29 – Dirk III, Count of Holland, defeats an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
• August – Leader of the remaining Bulgarian resistance, Ivats, is treacherously blinded and captured by strategos Eustathios Daphnomeles, confirming Bulgaria's position as part of the Byzantine Empire.
• August 14 – Bolesław accepts the surrender of Kiev by the Pechenegs. He reinstates Sviatopolk as Grand Prince of Kiev.
• c. October? – In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are decisively defeated by the Byzantine army led by the Catepan Basil Boioannes.
• Probable date
  • Battle of Carham: Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Alba and Owain Foel, King of the Cumbrians are victorious over either Uhtred, son of Waltheof or Eadwulf Cudel, rulers of Bamburgh. The battle confirmed Scottish dominance over Lothian.
  • Cnut succeeds his brother Harald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.

By topic

Religion

• Buckfast Abbey is founded in England.
• The city of Koblenz is given to the archbishop of Trier.

Births

• April 10 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier (d. 1092)
• Harthacnut, King of Denmark (d. 1042)
• Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian
• Richilde, Countess of Hainaut, Countess consort and Regent of Flanders (d. 1086)

Deaths

• June 23 – Margrave Henry I of Austria
• Abd ar-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph (murdered)
• Aeddan ap Blegywryd, King of Gwynedd
• Harald II of Denmark

Sources

• Kleinhenz, Christopher, ed. (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415939294. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

• Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0304357307. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)