1095
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| Gregorian calendar | 1095 MXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1848 |
| Armenian calendar | 544 ԹՎ ՇԽԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5845 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1016–1017 |
| Bengali calendar | 502 |
| Berber calendar | 2045 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Will. 2 – 9 Will. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1639 |
| Burmese calendar | 457 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6603–6604 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3792 or 3585 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3793 or 3586 |
| Coptic calendar | 811–812 |
| Discordian calendar | 2261 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1087–1088 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4855–4856 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1151–1152 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1016–1017 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4195–4196 |
| Holocene calendar | 11095 |
| Igbo calendar | 95–96 |
| Iranian calendar | 473–474 |
| Islamic calendar | 487–488 |
| Japanese calendar | Kahō 2 (嘉保２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 999–1000 |
| Julian calendar | 1095 MXCV |
| Korean calendar | 3428 |
| Minguo calendar | 817 before ROC 民前817年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −373 |
| Seleucid era | 1406/1407 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1637–1638 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1221 or 840 or 68 — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1222 or 841 or 69 |
Year 1095 (MXCV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- March – Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus sends ambassadors to Pope Urban II, at the Council of Piacenza, to discuss sending mercenaries against the Seljuk Turks.
- July – Coloman begins to establish himself as King of Hungary, following the death of his father.
- August 5 – The Valence Cathedral is consecrated in Valence, France.
- November 19 – The Council of Clermont begins. The council is called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- November 27 – Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont; Peter the Hermit begins to preach throughout France.
- Overpopulation in France, according to Pope Urban II [citation needed].
- November 28 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- The Cumans invade Thrace, to support the pretender Constantine Diogenes.
- The Second County of Portugal is established for the second time, by Count Henry of Burgundy. The same year, the Almoravids start pushing back the Christians to the positions they occupied a decade earlier. This offensive begins with the reconquest of Lisbon, which had been given away to Castile four years before.[1]
- Pembroke Castle is built in Wales.
Births
- July 4 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Muslim chronicler (d. 1188)
- December 22 – Roger II of Sicily (d. 1154)
- date unknown
- Amadeus III of Savoy
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Anglo Norman writer (approximate date)
- Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
- Kogyo-Daishi, restorer of Shingon Buddhism in Japan
- William of Malmesbury, English historian (d. 1143)
Deaths
- January 20 – Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
- June 18 – Sophia of Hungary (b. c. 1050)
- June 26 – Robert, Bishop of Hereford
- July 29 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary
- August 18 – King Olaf I of Denmark
- October 12 – Margrave Leopold II of Austria
- Shen Kuo, polymath Chinese scientist of Song Dynasty China
- Joan of Geneva, countess consort of Savoy
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.