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Calendar overview 1040
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 in the Battle of Dandanqan . |
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| 1040 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 488/489 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1032/33 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1583/84 (southern Buddhism); 1582/83 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 62nd (63rd) cycle
Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 402/403 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 418/419 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 431/432 (September 10-11) |
| Jewish calendar | 4800/01 (September 10-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 756/757 |
| Malayalam calendar | 215/216 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1350/51 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1351/52 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1078 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1096/97 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Asia
- May 23 : The Battle of Dandanqan ends with a victory for the Seljuks under Tughrul and Chaghri Beg , who end the rule of the Ghaznavids under Masud I of Ghazni over Khorasan .
British Islands
- June 14th : After the death of the English King Harald I Harefoot on March 17th in Oxford, his half-brother Hardiknut , King of Denmark , who had been planning this invasion for some time, lands at Sandwich with 62 ships and ascends the English throne unchallenged .
- August 14th : Macbeth kills the Scottish King Duncan I , also King of Strathclyde , in the Battle of Elgin and crowns himself king. Máel Coluim II ascends the throne of Strathclyde .
Holy Roman Empire
- August 22nd / 23rd : The Bohemian Duke Břetislav I defeats the German King Heinrich III. in the battle of Biwanka .
- September 22nd : Duke Břetislav I of Bohemia defeats the army of Henry III at the Neumarker Pass . again in the battle of Chlumec .
France
- Proclamation of the Peace of God ( Pax Dei ) by the Peace of God movement in France . This gives clergy, women, travelers and farmers protection.
First documentary mentions
- Ehrendingen , Niederbuchsiten and Rickenbach are first mentioned in a document.
Economy and culture
- The oldest brewery still in existence is founded in Freising - Weihenstephan .
religion
- Bishop Dietrich II of Luxembourg consecrates the first basilica in Metz .
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Gottfried III. , Count of Anjou and Tours († 1097 )
- Ibn ʿAqīl , Hanbali legal scholar and theologian († 1119 )
- Maol Muire Ua Dunáin , first Archbishop of Cashel and apostolic legate († 1117 )
- Milarepa , tantric master and founder of the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism († 1123 )
- al-Mutamid , Emir of Seville († 1095 )
- Sancho IV. Garcés , King of Navarre († 1076 )
Born around 1040
- Ivo of Chartres , Bishop of Chartres († 1115 )
- Burkhard von Fenis , Bishop of Basel († 1107 )
- Volkold I. von Malsburg , ancestor of the Counts of Nidda († 1097 )
- Rashi , French rabbi and authoritative editor and commentator of the Talmud in the High Middle Ages († 1105 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 15 : Engelbert IV. , Graf im Norital and Pustertal (* around 990 )
- March 17th : Harald I , English king (* around 1016 )
- May 29 : Rainald I , Count of Nevers, Count of Auxerre (* around 1000 )
- June 21 : Fulko III. , Count of Anjou (* 972 )
- August 13 : Eberhard I , first bishop of Bamberg (* around 973 )
- August 14th : Duncan I , King of Scotland (* 1001 )
- August 22 : Werner I. , Count of Hesse and Count of Winterthur (* around 1000 )
- October 1st : Alain III. , Count of Rennes and Duke of Brittany (* 997 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Manutschihri , Persian poet
- Roger I. de Tosny , Spanish nobleman, participant in the Reconquista
- Tihomir , Bulgarian pretender to the throne and rebel against the Byzantine emperor
- Ælfgifu of Northampton , Anglo-Saxon nobleman and co-regent of Norway (* around 990 )
Web links
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