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1793

489
ԹՎ ՆՁԹ

5790

961–962

447

1990

N/A

1584

402

6548–6549

己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3737 or 3530
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3738 or 3531

756–757

2206

1032–1033

4800–4801

1096–1097

961–962

4140–4141

11040

40–41

418–419

431–432

Chōryaku 4 / Chōkyū1
(長久元年)

943–944

1040
MXL

3373

872 before ROC
民前872年

−428

1351/1352 AG

1582–1583

阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1166 or 785 or 13
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1167 or 786 or 14

Year 1040 (MXL) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[edit]

By place[edit]

Europe[edit]

• Spring – Nikephoros Dokeianos, Byzantine governor of the Catepanate of Italy, is murdered by Lombard rebels at Ascoli. He is replaced by Michael Dokeianos, who arrives in November with a Varangian army.
• The Emirate of Sicily is divided and fragmented into small fiefdoms. The Arab nobles of Palermo restore the regime of the Kalbids (approximate date).
• August 22–23 – Battle of Brůdek: Duke Bretislav IofBohemia defeats the German forces under King Henry III (the Black) in the Bohemian Forest.
• Peter Delyan leads a rebellion against the Byzantine Empire and is proclaimed by the Bulgarian nobles as emperor (tsar) Peter II in Belgrade.

Britain[edit]

• March 17 – King Harold Harefoot dies at Oxford at the age of 24. His illegitimate son Ælfwine Haroldsson is left in his grandmother's care, Ælfgifu of Northampton.
• June 17 – Harthacnut lands at Sandwich and reclaims the throne of England which has been taken by Harald Harefoot (see 1035).
• August 14 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth, who succeeds him as king of Scotland.

Islamic world[edit]

• May 23 – Battle of Dandanaqan: The Turkmen Seljuqs defeat the Ghaznavid forces (50,000 men) led by Sultan Mas'ud I at Dandanaqan, a fortress city in the desert near Merv.

By topic[edit]

Religion[edit]

• Weihenstephan Abbey (Kloster Weihenstephan) in Germany, founds the oldest operating brewery.
• The Shalu Monastery is founded by the Buddhist monk Chetsun Sherab JungnayinTibet.

Births[edit]

• February 22 – Rashi, French rabbi and writer (d. 1105)
• July 12 – Yun Kwan, Korean general (d. 1111)
• Adelaide of Hungary, duchess of Bohemia (d. 1062)
• Alan Rufus, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile (approximate date)
• Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Abbadid emir of Seville (d. 1095)
• Arnold of Soissons, French bishop (approximate date)
• Blessed Gerard, founder of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1120)
• Bonfilius, bishop of Foligno (approximate date)
• Conrad I, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)
• Elimar I (orEgilmar), count of Oldenburg (d. 1112)
• Ernulf, French Benedictine monk and bishop (d. 1124)
• Gebhard III, bishop of Constance (approximate date)
• Geoffrey III, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Géza I (Magnus), king of Hungary (approximate date)
• Guglielmo Embriaco, Genoese merchant (d. 1102)
• Haziga of Diessen, German countess (approximate date)
• Harald III, king of Denmark (approximate date)
• Herman I, margrave of Baden (approximate date)
• Hugh I, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Hugh of Die, French bishop (approximate date)
• Ibn Aqil, Persian theologian and jurist (d. 1119)
• Ida of Lorraine, French countess (approximate date)
• Ivo of Chartres, French bishop (approximate date)
• Ladislaus I, king of Hungary (approximate date)
• Oddone Frangipane, Italian monk and hermit (d. 1127)
• Odo I (orEudes), French nobleman (d. 1086)
• Roger I, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (d. 1090)
• Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman (d. 1094)
• Xiao Guanyin, empress of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1075)
• Zayn al-Din Gorgani, Persian physician (d. 1136)

Deaths[edit]

• January 17 – Mas'ud I, Ghaznavid sultan (b. 998)
• March 3 – Cunigunde, Holy Roman Empress
• March 17 – Harold Harefoot, king of England^[1]
• May 29 – Renauld I, French nobleman
• June 21 – Fulk III, French nobleman (b. 970)
• August 14 – Duncan I, king of Scotland^[2]
• October 1 – Alan III, duke of Brittany (b. 997)
• Abu Hashim al-Hasan, Zaidi imam and ruler of Jemen
• Abu Nasr Mushkan, Persian statesman (or1039)
• Ali Daya, Ghaznavid commander-in-chief
• Begtoghdi, Ghaznavid commander-in-chief
• Bertha of Milan, Lombard duchess (approximate date)
• Dietrich I, bishop of Meissen (approximate date)
• Gilbert, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Helias of Cologne, Irish abbot and musician
• Hugh, Italian nobleman (approximate date)
• Hugh I, count of Empúries and Peralada
• Ibn al-Haytham, Arab astronomer (approximate date)
• John V, duke of Gaeta (approximate date)
• Maria of Amalfi, Lombard duchess (approximate date)
• Nikephoros Dokeianos, Byzantine general
• Unsuri, Persian poet and writer (or1039)
• Yeshe-Ö, Tibetan lama-king (approximate date)

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