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Calendar overview 1044
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 under King Sámuel Aba in the battle of Menfö . |
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| 1044 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 492/493 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1036/37 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1587/88 (southern Buddhism); 1586/87 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 62nd (63rd) cycle
Year of the wood monkey甲申 ( at the beginning of the year water sheep 癸未) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 406/407 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 422/423 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 435/436 (July 28-29) |
| Jewish calendar | 4804/05 (August 26-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 760/761 |
| Malayalam calendar | 219/220 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1354/55 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1355/56 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1082 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1100/01 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Holy Roman Empire / Hungary
- April 19 : Gotzelo I , Duke of Upper Lorraine and Lower Lorraine and Lord of Zutphen , dies. King Henry III enfeoffs Gotzelos older son Gottfried with Upper Lorraine and Zutphen and Gotzelos second son Gotzelo II with the same name with Lower Lorraine.
- July 5th : German troops under King Heinrich III. defeat Hungarian troops under King Sámuel Aba , who is captured and executed, in the Battle of Menfö .
- The Venetian Peter Orseolo is named after Henry III. Victory over Sámuel Aba and his execution as Henry's vassal in Stuhlweissenburg, re-installed as King of Hungary . However, he can only rule with a massive Bavarian and Bohemian military presence.
France
- August 21 : Count Gottfried II of Anjou defeated in the battle of Nouy Theobald III. von Blois and his brother Stephan I von Champagne , thereby securing control of the Touraine for the Plantagenet family .
Asia
- Anawrahta ascends the throne of Bagan and leads the Burmese kingdom to a great increase in power.
- Rajadhiraja Chola becomes ruler of the Chola empire of the Tamils in India after the death of his father Rajendra I.
First documentary mentions
religion
- Azelin becomes Bishop of Hildesheim . He succeeds Thietmar , who died on November 14th, in this role.
Disasters
- A storm flood is mentioned in the chronicles for Rügen .
Born
- al-Baghawī , Persian Shafiite scholar († 1117 or 1122)
- Stephan von Muret , French monk († 1124 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 14 : Adelheid I , Franconian Emperor's daughter, Abbess of the Quedlinburg, Gandersheim, Gernrode and Frose (* 977 ) monasteries
Sarcophagus of Bishop Azecho, Salier Crypt of Worms Cathedral
- January 18 : Azecho , Bishop of Worms
- April 19 : Gotzelo I , Duke of Lower and Upper Lorraine (* around 970 )
- July 5 : Sámuel Aba , King of Hungary (* around 990 )
- July 5 : Sieghard VII. , Count im Chiemgau (* around 1010 )
- July 12 : Rudolf von Werl , Count in Groningerland (* around 985 )
- November 14th : Thietmar , Bishop of Hildesheim
Exact date of death unknown
- Brjatschislaw von Polotsk , Prince of Polotsk (* around 997 )
- Mathilde of Friesland , Queen of France, second wife of King Heinrich I (* around 1024 )
- asch-Sharif al-Murtaḍā , Twelve Shiite legal scholar and Koran commentator (* around 965 )
- Rajendra I. , King of the Indian Chola Empire
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