1061
Appearance
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
Decades: | 1030s 1040s 1050s – 1060s – 1070s 1080s 1090s |
Years: | 1058 1059 1060 – 1061 – 1062 1063 1064 |
Gregorian calendar | 1061 MLXI |
Ab urbe condita | 1814 |
Armenian calendar | 510 ԹՎ ՇԺ |
Assyrian calendar | 5811 |
Balinese saka calendar | 982–983 |
Bengali calendar | 468 |
Berber calendar | 2011 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1605 |
Burmese calendar | 423 |
Byzantine calendar | 6569–6570 |
Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3757 or 3697 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3758 or 3698 |
Coptic calendar | 777–778 |
Discordian calendar | 2227 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1053–1054 |
Hebrew calendar | 4821–4822 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1117–1118 |
- Shaka Samvat | 982–983 |
- Kali Yuga | 4161–4162 |
Holocene calendar | 11061 |
Igbo calendar | 61–62 |
Iranian calendar | 439–440 |
Islamic calendar | 452–453 |
Japanese calendar | Kōhei 4 (康平4年) |
Javanese calendar | 964–965 |
Julian calendar | 1061 MLXI |
Korean calendar | 3394 |
Minguo calendar | 851 before ROC 民前851年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −407 |
Seleucid era | 1372/1373 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1603–1604 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1187 or 806 or 34 — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1188 or 807 or 35 |
1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1061st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 61st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1061, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
![Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Alessandro-ii-color.jpg/220px-Alessandro-ii-color.jpg)
Events
[change | change source]By place
[change | change source]Europe
[change | change source]- January – Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are forced to leave Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
- October 1 – Pope Alexander II replaces Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
- The Normans take over Messina in Sicily.
- Construction of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
- Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
- Most of West Frisia (later part of the county of Holland) is taken over by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
- Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.
Africa
[change | change source]Deaths
[change | change source]- January 28 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
- July 18 or July 27 – Pope Nicholas II