1090
1090
Calendar year
Year 1090 (MXC) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 1090 MXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1843 |
| Armenian calendar | 539 ԹՎ ՇԼԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5840 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1011–1012 |
| Bengali calendar | 497 |
| Berber calendar | 2040 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Will. 2 – 4 Will. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1634 |
| Burmese calendar | 452 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6598–6599 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3787 or 3580 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3788 or 3581 |
| Coptic calendar | 806–807 |
| Discordian calendar | 2256 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1082–1083 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4850–4851 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1146–1147 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1011–1012 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4190–4191 |
| Holocene calendar | 11090 |
| Igbo calendar | 90–91 |
| Iranian calendar | 468–469 |
| Islamic calendar | 482–483 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanji 4 (寛治４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 994–995 |
| Julian calendar | 1090 MXC |
| Korean calendar | 3423 |
| Minguo calendar | 822 before ROC 民前822年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −378 |
| Seleucid era | 1401/1402 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1632–1633 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1216 or 835 or 63 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1217 or 836 or 64 |
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By place
Europe
- A third Almoravid expedition is launched in Al-Andalus, designed to finally subdue the Taifa's Kingdoms. The cities of Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Málaga, Almería and Ronda fall to the troops of Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin.[1]
- King Stephen II of Croatia becomes involved in an open conflict between factions of Croatian nobles, who reassert their traditional rights in their own counties.
Seljuk Empire
- Hassan-i Sabbah founds the Nizari Ismaili state after taking control of the Alamut Castle and organising the military group called the Order of Assassins.[2]
Africa
- Béjaïa (or Bugia) becomes the capital of the Hammadid Dynasty in modern Algeria. It becomes an important port and centre of culture.
By topic
Arts and Culture
- Troubadours begin playing in western Aquitaine (Poitou and Saintonge) and Gascony (approximate date).
Science and Technology
- Qin Guan, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty, writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.
- January 17 – Qin Hui, Chinese chancellor (d. 1155)
- unknown dates
- Frederick II (the One-Eyed), German nobleman (d. 1147)[3]
- Fujiwara no Atsuyori (or Dōin), Japanese waka poet (d. 1179)[4]
- probable
- Agnes I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (approximate date)
- Alaungsithu, Burmese king of the Pagan Dynasty (d. 1167)
- Arnold of Brescia, Italian canon regular (approximate date)
- Bernard of Clairvaux, French abbot and theologian (d. 1153)
- Chen Yuyi, Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty (d. 1138)
- Eliezer ben Nathan, German rabbi and liturgical poet (d. 1170)
- Eric II (the Memorable), king of Denmark (approximate date)
- Fujiwara no Akisuke, Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1155)
- Juliane de Fontevrault, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England
- Conrad I, German nobleman and rector of Burgundy (d. 1152)
- Niklot (or Nyklot), Obotrite prince and tribal chief (d. 1160)
- Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester
- Theobald II (the Great), French nobleman
- Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury
- William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset
- March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)
- April 16 – Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040)
- May 3 – Adelaide of Rheinfelden, queen consort of Hungary[5]
- May 12 – Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman
- May 18 – Berthold of Rheinfelden, German nobleman
- June 26 – Jaromír, Bohemian prince and bishop
- July 3 – Egbert II (or Ekbert), German nobleman
- August 11 – Fujiwara no Atsuie, Japanese nobleman (b. 1033)[6]
- August 13 – Constance of Normandy, duchess of Brittany
- unknown dates
- Abd al-Jalil ibn Wahbun, Moorish poet and writer
- Fayun Faxiu, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (b. 1027)
- Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman nobleman (b. c.10350
- Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter[7]
- St Isaiah of Rostov, Kievan missionary and bishop[8]
- Raynald I, French Benedictine abbot (b. 1059)
- William of Poitiers, French priest and chronicler (b. c.1020)
- probable
- Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer
- Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
- Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- John B. Freed (January 1, 2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-300-12276-3.
- McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 146
- Eleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles. Manchester University Press. January 1, 2013. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-5261-1282-8.
- Kanō, higefumi (1983). "Fujiwara no Atsuie" 藤原敦家. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 267. OCLC 11917421.
- Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6 Page 372
- Alban Butler; Paul Burns (January 1, 1997). Butler's Lives of the Saints. A&C Black. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-86012-254-8.