1016
Calendar year
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Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- March 25 â 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 â Ãthelred the Unready, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside".[1]
- Summer â Battle of Brentford (near London): Edmund Ironside defeats the Danes under King Cnut.[2]
- July 6 â Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley.[3]
- October 18 â Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of Wessex.[1]
- November 30 â Edmund II dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.[1]
- 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, MujÄhid al-Ê¿ÄmirÄ«.[4]
- 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.[5]
- Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine EmpireâKievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.
Arabian Empire
- January 7 â 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 â Emperor SanjÅ of Japan abdicates the throne after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old cousin Go-IchijÅ as the 68th emperor of Japan. Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed regent.
- Japanese poet Koshikibu no Naishi (lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress ShÅshi) 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.[6]
Births
- April 3 â Xing Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty (d. 1055)
- June 9 â Deokjong, ruler of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 1034)
- July 25 â Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (d. 1058)
- August 24 â Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress (d. 1039)
- October 28 â 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 Lá», 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 â Ãthelred the Unready, king of England
- May 22 â Jovan Vladimir, Serbian prince (b. 990)
- September 6 â Fujiwara no Bokushi, great-grandmother of the Emperor of Japan
- October 18
- Ãlfric of Hampshire, English nobleman
- Eadnoth the Younger, bishop of Dorchester in England
- Ulfcytel Snillingr, English nobleman
- November 30 â 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