1087

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s 1100s
Years:	1084 1085 1086 1087 1088 1089 1090

1087 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1087 MLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1840
Armenian calendar	536 ԹՎ ՇԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5837
Balinese saka calendar	1008–1009
Bengali calendar	494
Berber calendar	2037
English Regnal year	21 Will. 1 – 1 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1631
Burmese calendar	449
Byzantine calendar	6595–6596
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3784 or 3577     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3785 or 3578
Coptic calendar	803–804
Discordian calendar	2253
Ethiopian calendar	1079–1080
Hebrew calendar	4847–4848
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1143–1144
- Shaka Samvat	1008–1009
- Kali Yuga	4187–4188
Holocene calendar	11087
Igbo calendar	87–88
Iranian calendar	465–466
Islamic calendar	479–480
Japanese calendar	Ōtoku 4 / Kanji 1 (寛治元年)
Javanese calendar	991–992
Julian calendar	1087 MLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3420
Minguo calendar	825 before ROC 民前825年
Nanakshahi calendar	−381
Seleucid era	1398/1399 AG
Thai solar calendar	1629–1630
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1213 or 832 or 60     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1214 or 833 or 61

King William II of England (c. 1056–1100)

Year 1087 (MLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – The Taifa of Valencia falls under the domination of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid). He stabilizes the region around Valencia, which has revolted against the Moorish puppet ruler Al-Qadir.
• Inge the Elder returns to Svealand and kills his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn after a 3-year reign. Inge again proclaims himself king of Sweden (approximate date).

England

• September 9 – King William I (the Conqueror) dies in Rouen after a fall from his horse. He is succeeded by his third son William II who becomes king of England.
• A fire in London destroys much of the city, including St. Paul's Cathedral. Bishop Maurice starts the rebuilding of a new, much larger cathedral.

Africa

• Mahdia campaign: The navies of Genoa and Pisa take the capital of the Zirids, and occupy Mahdia for a year. Subsequently, both republics obtain trading privileges.

Japan

• January 3 – Emperor Shirakawa abdicates in favor of his 7-year-old son Horikawa after a 14-year reign. He exerts his personal power to set the cloistered rule system further in motion.

By topic

Religion

• May 9 – The relics of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of seafarers, are stolen by Italian sailors from his church in Myra (modern Turkey) and transported to Bari in southern Italy.
• September 16 – Pope Victor III dies after a 1-year pontificate at Monte Cassino. He is buried in the abbey's chapter house.

Births

• September 13 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)
• Reginald III (or Renaud), count of Burgundy (approximate date)
• Theoderich I of Are (or Dietrich), German nobleman (d. 1126)

Deaths

• June 9 – Otto I (the Fair), prince of Olomouc (b. 1045)
• June 27 – Henry I (the Long), margrave of the Nordmark
• September 9 – William I (the Conqueror), king of England
• September 16 – Victor III, pope of the Catholic Church
• September 25 – Simon I, French nobleman (b. 1025)
• November 12 – William I, French nobleman (b. 1020)
• December 13 – Maria Dobroniega, duchess of Poland
• December 27 – Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051)
• Abu Bakr ibn Umar, military leader of the Almoravids
• Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Arab astrologer (b. 1029)
• Arnold of Soissons (or Arnoul), French bishop (b. 1040)
• Asma bint Shihab, queen and co-regent of Yemen
• Blot-Sweyn, king of Svealand (approximate date)
• Eustace II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
• Leo Diogenes, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1069)
• Solomon (or Salomon), king of Hungary (b. 1053)
• Yaropolk Izyaslavich, prince of Turov and Volhyn