1052
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Year 1052 (MLII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
England
- Summer – Godwin, Earl of Wessex, sails with a large fleet up the Thames to London, forcing King Edward the Confessor to reinstate him into his previous position of power.
Africa
- Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.
By topic
Religion
- Byōdō-in, a Japanese Buddhist temple (located in the Kyoto Prefecture), changes its name by order of Fujiwara no Yorimichi.
Births
- May 23 – Philip I ("the Amorous"), king of France (d. 1108)
- September/October – Conrad II ("the Child"), duke of Bavaria (d. 1055)
- Agnes of Aquitaine, countess of Savoy (approximate date)
- Dirk V, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie) (d. 1091)
- Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England (d. c. 1126) (approximate date)
- Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)
- Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop and saint (d. 1121)
- Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
- Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)
Deaths
- March 6 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (twice), Denmark and Norway (b. 984)
- May 6 – Boniface III, Italian prince and margrave (assassinated)
- June 2/4 – assassinations
- Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman
- Pandulf III of Salerno, Lombard prince
- Pandulf of Capaccio, Lombard nobleman
- June 19 – Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty (b. 989)
- October 4 – Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1020)
- October 27 – Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
- December 14 – Aaron Scotus, Irish abbot and musician
- Amadeus I, count of Savoy (approximate date)
- Halinard, French archbishop (approximate date)
- Hugh II, count of Ponthieu (also lord of Abbeville)
- Rodulf, Norman missionary bishop and abbot
- Sweyn Godwinson (or Swein), English nobleman
- Xu Daoning, Chinese painter (approximate date)
- Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk
References
References
- Gilbert Meynier (2010) ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; p. 53.
- Zetterstéen, K. V.. (1927). "Ḳarwās̲h̲". E. J. Brill.
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