1051
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1051 MLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1804 |
| Armenian calendar | 500 ԹՎ Շ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5801 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 972–973 |
| 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 (Metal Tiger) 3748 or 3541 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3749 or 3542 |
| Coptic calendar | 767–768 |
| Discordian calendar | 2217 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1043–1044 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4811–4812 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1107–1108 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 972–973 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4151–4152 |
| Holocene calendar | 11051 |
| Igbo calendar | 51–52 |
| Iranian calendar | 429–430 |
| Islamic calendar | 442–443 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 6 (永承６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 954–955 |
| Julian calendar | 1051 MLI |
| Korean calendar | 3384 |
| Minguo calendar | 861 before ROC 民前861年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −417 |
| Seleucid era | 1362/1363 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1593–1594 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1177 or 796 or 24 — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1178 or 797 or 25 |
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.
- Heregeld is abolished by King Edward the Confessor of England.
- Estonians recapture the fort in Tartu from Russians.
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 – Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
- Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing