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1036

Note

1036

Year 1036 (MXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • Summer – In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
  • A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.

England

  • February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.

Africa

  • June 13 – Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.

China

  • The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia.

Japan

  • May 15 – Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.

By topic

Religion

  • Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of the elder Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.

Births

  • Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086)
  • Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127)
  • Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk (d. 1060)
  • Wang Shen, Chinese painter and poet (d. 1093)

Deaths

  • February 5 – Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
  • March 17 – Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
  • May 15 – Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1008)
  • June 12 – Tedald (or Theobald), Italian bishop
  • June 13 – al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
  • August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne
  • Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)
  • Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard bishop
  • Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
  • Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
  • Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress (b. 999)
  • Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
  • Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 973)

References

References

  1. Meynier, Gilbert. (2010). "L'Algérie, cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)". La Découverte.
  2. ''[[History of Song (Yuan dynasty). History of Song]]'' (1346).
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