1041

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1020s 1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s
Years:	1038 1039 1040 1041 1042 1043 1044

1041 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1041 MXLI
Ab urbe condita	1794
Armenian calendar	490 ԹՎ ՆՂ
Assyrian calendar	5791
Balinese saka calendar	962–963
Bengali calendar	448
Berber calendar	1991
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1585
Burmese calendar	403
Byzantine calendar	6549–6550
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3738 or 3531     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3739 or 3532
Coptic calendar	757–758
Discordian calendar	2207
Ethiopian calendar	1033–1034
Hebrew calendar	4801–4802
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1097–1098
- Shaka Samvat	962–963
- Kali Yuga	4141–4142
Holocene calendar	11041
Igbo calendar	41–42
Iranian calendar	419–420
Islamic calendar	432–433
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 2 (長久２年)
Javanese calendar	944–945
Julian calendar	1041 MXLI
Korean calendar	3374
Minguo calendar	871 before ROC 民前871年
Nanakshahi calendar	−427
Seleucid era	1352/1353 AG
Thai solar calendar	1583–1584
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1167 or 786 or 14     — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1168 or 787 or 15

Michael V Kalaphates (c. 1015–1042)

Year 1041 (MXLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• December 10 – Emperor Michael IV (the Paphlagonian) dies after a 6-year reign. His wife, Empress Zoë, elevates (on advice by her lover John the Orphanotrophos) her adoptive son to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, as Michael V Kalaphates. Shortly after, Michael comes into conflict with his uncle John, and banishes him to a monastery.

Europe

• March 17 – Battle of Olivento: Norman troops and their Lombard allies, led by William I (Iron Arm), are victorious against the Byzantines at the feet of the Monte Vulture, near the River Olivento in Apulia.
• May 4 – Battle of Montemaggiore: Lombard-Norman rebel forces, led by William I, are again victorious, and defeat a Byzantine army (18,000 men) on a hill named Montemaggiore, near the River Ofanto.
• September 3 – Battle of Montepeloso: Lombard-Norman rebel forces, led by William I, defeat the Byzantines at Montepeloso. During the battle, Boioannes, governor of the Catepanate of Italy, is captured.
• Winter – Battle of Ostrovo: The Byzantines, with the help of the Varangian Guard, led by Harald Hardrada (future king of Norway), defeat the Bulgarian troops, near Lake Ostrovo in Greece.

England

• Edward the Confessor returns to England from exile in Normandy, to become the heir of his half-brother Harthacnut, as king of England. He reduces the navy from 60 to 32 ships, due to the tax burden.
• The city of Worcester rebels against the taxes of Harthacnut. Edward enlists the help of Earl Godwin of Wessex (to support him in the right to claim the English throne) and marries his daughter Edith.

Africa

• The Zirid Dynasty rejects Shi'ite obedience and Fatimid domination, and recognizes the Abbasids as their overlords.

Asia

• The number of enlisted soldiers in the Song Dynasty Chinese military reaches well over 1,250,000 troops, an increase since 1022, when there were a million soldiers (approximate date).

Births

• Ōe no Masafusa, Japanese poet (d. 1111)
• Raymond IV (Saint-Gilles), French nobleman (d. 1105)

Deaths

• February 4 – Fujiwara no Kintō, Japanese poet (b. 966)
• December 10 – Michael IV, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)
• Adolf II of Lotharingia, German nobleman (b. 1002)
• Akazome Emon, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)
• Eadwulf III, English ealdorman and High-Reeve
• Edmund of Durham (or Eadmund), English bishop
• Gangeyadeva, Indian ruler of the Kalachuri Dynasty
• Mac Beathaidh mac Ainmire, Irish poet and Chief Ollam
• Muhammad, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire (b. 998)
• Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar, Buyid emir
• Peter Delyan, Bulgarian rebel leader and ruler (tsar)
• Sampiro, Spanish bishop, politician and intellectual
• Tancred of Hauteville, Norman nobleman (b. 980)
• Vikramabahu (or Kassapa), king of Sri Lanka (b. 1017)