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1077
investiture dispute
Heinrich asks Mathilde and his godfather, Abbot Hugo von Cluny, to mediate
King Henry IV sets off on the “ Walk to Canossa ”.
Gregory VII, detail
At Canossa Castle , Pope Gregory VII relieves him of his excommunication.
1077 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 525/526 (July turn of the year)
Ethiopian calendar 1069/70
Buddhist calendar 1620/21 (Southern Buddhism); 1619/20 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 62nd (63rd) cycle

Year of the Fire Serpent丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Dragon 丙辰)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 439/440 (New Year's April)
Iranian calendar 455/456 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar 469/470 (24/25 July)
Jewish calendar 4837/38 (September 20/21)
Coptic calendar 793/794
Malayalam calendar 252/253
Seleucid era Babylon: 1387/88 (April turn of the year)

Syria: 1388/89 (October turn of the year)

Spanish era 1115
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) 1133/34 (April turn of the year)

events

politics and world affairs

investiture dispute

Bismarck quote on the Canossa column in Bad Harzburg
  • 25 January to 28 January: King Henry IV is freed from the excommunication by Pope Gregory VII at Canossa Castle in Northern Italy after he has shown his penitence – the so-called “ Walk to Canossa ”.
  • March 15: Despite Heinrich's release from the ban, the Swabian Duke Rudolf von Rheinfelden is elected anti-king by oppositional nobles in Forchheim . For the first time, election promises will also be demanded from the princes.
  • Rudolf von Rheinfelden is crowned by Siegfried I. von Eppstein in Mainz Cathedral on March 26 or April 7 .
  • Military clashes between the two opponents erupt for the first time in the autumn.

Other events in Europe

Bust of Ladislaus I

Documentary first mentions

religion

nature and environment

Born

Died

Date of death secured

Exact date of death unknown

  • Shao Yong , Chinese philosopher, poet, cosmologist and historian (b. 1011)
  • Zhang Zai , Chinese moral philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1020)

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