1050
Calendar year
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Year 1050 (ML) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1050 ML |
| Ab urbe condita | 1803 |
| Armenian calendar | 499 ԹՎ ՆՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5800 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 971–972 |
| Bengali calendar | 456–457 |
| Berber calendar | 2000 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1594 |
| Burmese calendar | 412 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6558–6559 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3747 or 3540 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3748 or 3541 |
| Coptic calendar | 766–767 |
| Discordian calendar | 2216 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1042–1043 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4810–4811 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1106–1107 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 971–972 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4150–4151 |
| Holocene calendar | 11050 |
| Igbo calendar | 50–51 |
| Iranian calendar | 428–429 |
| Islamic calendar | 441–442 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 5 (永承５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 953–954 |
| Julian calendar | 1050 ML |
| Korean calendar | 3383 |
| Minguo calendar | 862 before ROC 民前862年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −418 |
| Seleucid era | 1361/1362 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1592–1593 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1176 or 795 or 23 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 1177 or 796 or 24 |
Events
By place
Europe
- Hedeby in Jutland is sacked by King Harald Hardrada of Norway, during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.[1][2]
- King Anund Jacob dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother Emund the Old as king of Sweden.[3][4]
- Macbeth, King of Scotland, makes a pilgrimage to Rome.[5][6][7]
Africa
- Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire.[8][9][10]
By topic
Religion
- King Edward the Confessor unites the English dioceses of Devon and Cornwall. He moves the see from Crediton to Exeter and gives the order to build a cathedral.[11] Leofric becomes the first bishop of Exeter.[12][13][14]
- The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey (modern Germany) is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world (approximate date).[15][16][17]
Births
- November 11 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)[18][19][20]
- Amadeus II, count of Savoy (approximate date)[21]
- Berthold II, duke of Swabia (approximate date)[22][23]
- Bertrand of Comminges, French bishop (d. 1126)[24][25][26]
- Frederick I, duke of Swabia (approximate date)[27]
- Leopold II ("the Fair"), margrave of Austria (d. 1095)[28]
- Lhachen Gyalpo, king of Ladakh (approximate date)[29][30]
- Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman (approximate date)[citation needed]
- Li Tang, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)[31][32][33]
- Lope Íñiguez, lord of Biscay (approximate date)[34]
- Michael VII Doukas, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)[35]
- Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Arab mathematician (d. 1141)[36]
- Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster (approximate date)[37][38]
- Olaf I ("Hunger"), king of Denmark (approximate date)[39]
- Olaf III ("the Peaceful"), king of Norway (approximate date)[40]
- Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer (d. 1090)[41]
- Peter the Hermit, French priest (approximate date)[42][43]
- Sophia of Hungary, duchess of Saxony (approximate date)[44]
- Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1113)[45][46][47]
- Vidyakara, Indian Buddhist scholar (d. 1130)[citation needed]
Deaths
- February 10 – Anna, Grand Princess of Kiev (b. 1001)[48][49]
- October 29 – Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury[50][51][52]
- Alferius (or Alferio), Italian abbot and saint (b. 930)[53][54][55]
- Anund Jacob (or James), king of Sweden (b. 1008)[56][57][58]
- Casilda of Toledo, Spanish saint (approximate date)[59][60]
- Constantine Arianites, Byzantine general[61][62][63]
- Einar Thambarskelfir, Norwegian nobleman[64][65]
- Herleva, Norman noblewoman (approximate date)[66]
- Hugh of Langres, French bishop and theologian[67][68]
- Humphrey de Vieilles, Norman nobleman[69]
- Michael Dokeianos, Byzantine general[70][71][72]
- Suryavarman I, king of the Khmer Empire[73][74][75]
- Wifred II, count of Cerdanya and Berga[76][77]
- Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire[78][79][80]