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1087
Calendar year
Year 1087 (MLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| 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 |
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By place
Europe
- Summer – The Taifa of Valencia falls under the domination of El Cid. He stabilizes the region around Valencia, which has revolted against the Moorish puppet ruler Al-Qadir.[1]
- 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 – William the Conqueror dies in Rouen after a fall from his horse. He is succeeded as king of England by his third son William II.
- 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.[2]
- Completion of Bab al-Futuh, Cairo
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.
Middle East
- May: The marriage of Caliph al-Muqtadi and Mah-i Mulk is consummated. This marriage strengthens the political relation of Malik-Shah I and the Caliph.
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.[3]
- September 16 – Pope Victor III dies after a 1-year pontificate at Monte Cassino. He is buried in the abbey's chapter house.
- September 13 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)
- Ibn Quzman, Andalusian poet and writer (approximate date)
- Reginald III (or Renaud), count of Burgundy (approximate date)
- Theoderich van Are (or Dietrich), German nobleman (d. 1126)
- June 9 – Otto I ("the Fair"), prince of Olomouc (b. 1045)
- June 27 – Henry I the Long, margrave of the Nordmark
- September 9 – William the Conqueror, king of England[4]
- 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
- Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
- Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 56.
- Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-415-93930-0.
- "William I (the Conqueror)". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved October 8, 2022.