1076
1076
Calendar year
Year 1076 (MLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 1076 MLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1829 |
| Armenian calendar | 525 ԹՎ ՇԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5826 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 997–998 |
| Bengali calendar | 483 |
| Berber calendar | 2026 |
| English Regnal year | 10 Will. 1 – 11 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1620 |
| Burmese calendar | 438 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6584–6585 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3773 or 3566 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3774 or 3567 |
| Coptic calendar | 792–793 |
| Discordian calendar | 2242 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1068–1069 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4836–4837 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1132–1133 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 997–998 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4176–4177 |
| Holocene calendar | 11076 |
| Igbo calendar | 76–77 |
| Iranian calendar | 454–455 |
| Islamic calendar | 468–469 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōhō 3 (承保３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 980–981 |
| Julian calendar | 1076 MLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3409 |
| Minguo calendar | 836 before ROC 民前836年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −392 |
| Seleucid era | 1387/1388 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1618–1619 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1202 or 821 or 49 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1203 or 822 or 50 |
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By place
Europe
- January 24 – Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, holds a synod in Worms (modern Germany). The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed, and the bishops abandon their allegiance to him.
- February 22 – Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church, and all the bishops named by Henry are excommunicated.
- Summer – Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia (modern Netherlands) from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde, taking him prisoner.
- October 8 – Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin (near Split), in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses (known later as the Hollow Church) by a representative of Gregory VII.
- December 13 – Norman conquest of southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno after a short siege.
- December 26 – Bolesław II the Bold (or "the Generous") is crowned as King of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.
England
- May 31 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, a participant in the Revolt of the Earls against King William the Conqueror, is beheaded near Winchester.
- Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest.
- November 1 – A frost begins that lasts until April 1077.[1]
Africa
- Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids (approximate date).
Asia
- Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II to become king of the Western Chalukya Empire (modern India).
By topic
Literature
- Anselm of Aosta, an Italian Benedictine abbot, completes his Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.
Religion
- Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.
- June 1 – Mstislav I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1132)
- Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Moorish scholar and judge (d. 1148)
- Fujiwara no Sadazane, Japanese calligrapher (d. 1120)
- Hualani, Hawaiian queen and regent (approximate date)
- Urban (or Gwrgan), bishop of Llandaff (d. 1134)
- March 18 – Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy
- March 21 – Robert I (the Old), duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
- April 18 – Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
- April 28 – Sweyn II (Estridsson), king of Denmark
- May 8 – Nasr ibn Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
- May 26 – Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona (b. 1023)
- May 31 – Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (executed)
- June 4 – Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (or Navarre)
- July 15 – Arnost (or Arnošt), bishop of Rochester
- Godfrey IV (the Hunchback), duke of Lower Lorraine
- Ramihrdus of Cambrai, French priest and martyr (or 1077)
- William Busac, English nobleman (jure uxoris) (b. 1020)
- Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.