1012

1012 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1012; MXII
Ab urbe condita	1765
Armenian calendar	461; ԹՎ ՆԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5762
Balinese saka calendar	933–934
Bengali calendar	419
Berber calendar	1962
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1556
Burmese calendar	374
Byzantine calendar	6520–6521
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig); 3709 or 3502; — to —; 壬子年 (Water Rat); 3710 or 3503
Coptic calendar	728–729
Discordian calendar	2178
Ethiopian calendar	1004–1005
Hebrew calendar	4772–4773
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1068–1069
- Shaka Samvat	933–934
- Kali Yuga	4112–4113
Holocene calendar	11012
Igbo calendar	12–13
Iranian calendar	390–391
Islamic calendar	402–403
Japanese calendar	Kankō 9 / Chōwa 1; (長和元年)
Javanese calendar	914–915
Julian calendar	1012; MXII
Korean calendar	3345
Minguo calendar	900 before ROC; 民前900年
Nanakshahi calendar	−456
Seleucid era	1323/1324 AG
Thai solar calendar	1554–1555
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年; (female Iron-Pig); 1138 or 757 or −15; — to —; 阳水鼠年; (male Water-Rat); 1139 or 758 or −14

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century; 11th century ; 12th century;
Decades:	990s; 1000s; 1010s ; 1020s; 1030s;
Years:	1009; 1010; 1011; 1012 ; 1013; 1014; 1015;

Year in topic Year 1012 (MXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

April 12 – Oldřich, duke of Bohemia, deposes his brother Jaromír who flees to Poland. Oldřich recognises the suzerainty of King Henry II of Germany. He secures his rule by suppressing the Vršovci insurgents.

Spring – King Æthelred II (the Unready) resumes the payment of Danegeld (48,000 pounds of silver) in an attempt to buy off the Viking raiders.^[1]

Máel Mórda mac Murchada starts a rebellion against High King Brian Boru in Ireland, which ends in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf.

King Malcolm II reputedly defeats a Danish army at Cruden Bay (modern Scotland).

Summer – The climax of the Bedouin anti-Fatimid rebellion in Palestine is reached. Abu'l-Futuh al-Hasan ibn Ja'far is acclaimed as anti-Caliph with the title of al-Rashid bi-llah ("Righteous with God").^[2]

The Tepanec tribe settles on the western region of Lake Texcoco. The lineage starts when the Chichimeca chieftain Acolhua marries Cuetlaxochitzin, daughter of Xolotl, another Chichimeca chieftain.

April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay a ransom of 3,000 pounds for his release).
May 12 – Pope Sergius IV dies after a 3-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Benedict VIII as the 143rd pope of the Catholic Church.

^ Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 381-384.
^ Gil, Moshe (1997). A History of Palestine, 634-1099. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 382–384. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.

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