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Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson, confirming his status as king of Norway.
- April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside".
- Summer – Battle of Brentford (near London): Edmund Ironside defeats the Danes under King Cnut.
- July 6 – Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley.
- October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of Wessex.
- November 30 – Edmund II dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.
- The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardinia, in particular Porto Torres, and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Dénia, Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī.
- Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.
- Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.
Arabian Empire
- January 7 – Fath al-Qal'i, governor of the Citadel of Aleppo, revolts against Emir Mansur ibn Lu'lu', forcing him to flee. Fath accepts an agreement with Salih ibn Mirdas and takes control of Aleppo.
Asia
- March 10 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan abdicates the throne after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old cousin Go-Ichijō as the 68th emperor of Japan. Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed regent.
- Japanese poet Koshikibu no Naishi (lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress Shōshi) and her husband Fujiwara no Kiminari (son of Michinaga) have a son, but the couple is not accepted because of the social gap between them.
Births
- April 3 – Xing Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty (d. 1055)
- June 9 – Deokjong, ruler of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 1034)
- July 25 – Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (d. 1058)
- August 24 – Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress (d. 1039)
- October 28 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- Cao, empress and regent of Song dynasty China (d. 1079)
- Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II of England (d. 1057)
- Không Lộ, Vietnamese Zen master (approximate date)
- Minamoto no Tsunenobu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1097)
- Svein Knutsson, king of Norway (d. 1035)
- Yan Vyshatich, Kievan nobleman (d. 1106)
Deaths
- April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, king of England
- May 22 – Jovan Vladimir, Serbian prince (b. 990)
- September 6 – Fujiwara no Bokushi, great-grandmother of the Emperor of Japan
- October 18
- Ælfric of Hampshire, English nobleman
- Eadnoth the Younger, bishop of Dorchester in England
- Ulfcytel Snillingr, English nobleman
- November 30 – Edmund II "Ironside", king of England
- Badis ibn Mansur, Muslim emir of the Zirid dynasty
- Henry II "the Good", count of Stade (b. 946)
- Liu Chenggui, official of Song dynasty China (b. 951)
- Simeon of Mantua, Armenian Benedictine monk
- Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, caliph of Córdoba
- Uhtred the Bold, English nobleman
- Wulfgar of Abingdon, English abbot
References
Sources
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{{cite book | last = Ambraseys | first = N. | authorlink= Nicholas Ambraseys | date = 2009 | title = Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FzXSBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT713 | edition = First | publisher = Cambridge University Press | pages = 259, 260 | isbn = 978-0521872928
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{{cite book | last1 = Benvenuti | first1 = Gino | title = Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia | date = 1985 | publisher = Newton & Compton Editori | location = Rome | isbn = 978-8882895297 | page = 33 | language = Italian
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{{cite book | editor1-last = Kleinhenz | editor1-first = Christopher | title = Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia | date = 2010 | publisher = Routledge | volume = 1 | isbn = 978-0415939294 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1piMMqjAf1MC | page = 95
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{{cite book | last1 = Palmer | first1 = Alan | last2 = Palmer | first2 = Veronica | date = 1992 | title = Chronology of British History | publisher = Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins | location = London | pages = 48–49 | isbn = 978-0712656160
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{{cite book |last1 = Williams |first1 = Hywel |title = Cassell's Chronology of World History |url = https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/105 |url-access = registration |publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson |date = 2005 |isbn = 978-0304357307 |pages = 105–106
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{{cite book | last1 = Bradbury | first1 = Jim | title = The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare | date = 2004 | isbn = 0-415-22126-9
References
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