1078

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

title: "1078" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1078"] topic_path: "general/1078" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1078" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::callout[type=note] 1078 ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Meister_der_Predigtsammlung_des_Heiligen_Johannes_Chrysostomus_001.jpg" caption="Nikephoros III]] (middle) (c. 1002–1081)"] ::

Year 1078 (MLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Spring – Nikephoros Botaneiates, a Byzantine general (strategos) of the Theme of the Anatolics, revolts against Emperor Michael VII Doukas. With the support of the Seljuk Turks who provide him with troops, Nikephoros marches upon Nicaea (modern Turkey). He defeats the imperial army and proclaims himself emperor.
March 24 – Nikephoros Botaneiates enters Constantinople in triumph and is crowned by Patriarch Cosmas I as emperor Nikephoros III of the Byzantine Empire. Michael VII resigns his throne after a 7-year reign and retires into the Monastery of Stoudios.
Battle of Kalavrye: The imperial forces of General Alexios Komnenos are victorious over the rebellious army (12,000 men) under Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder, governor (doux) of the Theme of Dyrrhachium. Bryennios is captured and later blinded.
Philaretos Brachamios abandons his claim to the Byzantine throne, on being appointed governor of Antioch, a foundation of the later Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

Europe

August 7 – Battle of Mellrichstadt: Emperor Henry IV defeats the German anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden, duke of Swabia, near Mellrichstadt (modern Germany).
October 3 – Grand Prince Iziaslav I dies, and is succeeded by Vsevolod I, who unites the principalities – Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslavl – in Kievan Rus'.

England

Approximate date – The White Tower of the Tower of London is begun, under the direction of Gundulf (or Gundulph), bishop of Rochester.

Africa

The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, besieges Ceuta. Since the city can receive help from the sea, the siege will last until 1083.

China

By this year, the iron industry in the Song dynasty is producing a total weight of 127,000,000 kg (125,000 t) of iron product per year.

By topic

Religion

July 11 – The Romanesque tympanum of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia (Spain) is constructed.
Anselm is elected abbot of Bec Abbey, in Normandy.
A church council in Poitiers deposes Bishop Sylvester of Rennes who had bought his office in 1076. This leads also to the flight of Robert of Arbrissel to Paris where he begins his studies.

Births

March 17 – Abdul Qadir Gilani, Persian preacher (d. 1166)
April/May – Al-Mustazhir, Abbasid caliph in Baghdad (d. 1118)
Constance of France, princess of Antioch (d. 1125)
Ermengol V, count of Urgell (Catalonia) (d. 1102)
Fujiwara no Tadazane, Japanese nobleman (d. 1162)
Ibn Quzman, Moorish poet and writer (d. 1160)
Reishi, Japanese empress consort (d. 1144)
Approximate date – Alexander I ("the Fierce"), king of Scotland (d. 1124)

Deaths

January – Immilla of Turin, Italian noblewoman
February 20 – Herman, bishop of Salisbury
May 30 – Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince
August 9 – Peter I, Italian nobleman
August 26 – Herluin, founder of Bec Abbey
October 3
- Boris Vyacheslavich, prince of Chernigov
- Iziaslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1024)
November 6 – Berthold II, duke of Carinthia
November 11 – Udo, archbishop of Trier
Andreas (or Andrew), archbishop of Bari, convert to Judaism
Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi, Fatimid scholar (b. 1000)
Nikephoritzes, Byzantine governor
Rhys ab Owain, Welsh king of Deheubarth
Richard I (Drengot), prince of Capua
Tunka Manin, ruler of the Ghana Empire (b. 1010)
Zeng Gongliang, Chinese scholar and writer (b. 998)
Zhang Xian, Chinese poet and writer (b. 990)
Approximate date – Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Persian scholar

References

John Julius Norwich (1991). ''Byzantium: The Apogee'', p. 361. {{ISBN. 0-394-53779-3.
Martin, Janet (1993). ''Medieval Russia, 980–1584'', pp. 33–35. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN. 978-0-521-67636-6.
(1999). "Philosophers and Religious Leaders". Greenwood Publishing Group.
(2021). "From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100". Routledge.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::