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1051 by topic |
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Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
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.
- William of Normandy (later known as William the Conqueror) consolidates his power in Normandy. He fights over the control of Maine, and lays siege to the fortresses of Alençon and Domfront (Western France).
- May 19 – Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.
- Heregeld is abolished, by King Edward the Confessor of England.
- Hilarion of Kiev (or IIarion) becomes the first non-Greek metropolitan bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in Kiev.
Births
- September 21 – Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress consort (d. 1087)
- 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
- March 25 – Hugh IV, Count of Maine
- Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing