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1016

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

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References

  1. (2007). "Koshikibu no Naishi". Hitachi Systems & Services.
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