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Calendar overview 1051
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| 1051 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 499/500 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1043/44 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1594/95 (southern Buddhism); 1593/94 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 62nd (63rd) cycle
Year of the metal rabbit辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 413/414 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 429/430 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 442/443 (May 14/15) |
| Jewish calendar | 4811/12 (September 8/9) |
| Coptic calendar | 767/768 |
| Malayalam calendar | 226/227 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1361/62 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1362/63 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1089 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1107/08 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
France
- May 19 : King Henry I of France marries his third wife Anna of Kiev .
- Despite a ban by Pope Leo IX. marries William the Bastard , Duke of Normandy, Mathilde of Flanders and becomes so powerful that he is perceived as a threat by King Henry I of France.
England
- After an unsuccessful revolt against the English King Edward the Confessor , the Godwins , Godwin von Wessex and his sons Harold , Tostig , Gyrth and Leofwine Godwinson , have to flee the country.
Asia
- After Isfahan was conquered by the Seljuks , the city became the capital of the Greater Seljuks under Sultan Tughrul Beg and remained so until the sultanate was divided in 1118 .
science and technology
- The Chinese official Cai Xiang authored the book Chalu about Chinese tea culture .
Born
- September 21 : Bertha of Savoy , wife of Emperor Henry IV († 1087 )
- 1051/ 1052 : Bohemond of Taranto , Prince of Taranto, a leader of the First Crusade, Prince of Antioch († 1111 )
- around 1051: Edgar Ætheling , Anglo-Saxon heir to the throne († around 1125)
Died
Date of death secured
- February 28 : Humfried , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- March 14th : Gerhard I of Cambrai , Bishop of Arras and Cambrai
- March 25 : Hugo IV. , Earl of Maine (* around 1020 )
- April 27th : Fulko Bertrand I , Count of Provence
- June 11 : Bardo of Mainz , monk in Fulda, abbot of Werden, archbishop of Mainz (* around 980 )
- June 22nd : Theoderich , Bishop of Constance
- August 10th : Drogo von Hauteville , Count of Apulia
- August 24th : Hunfried , Archbishop of Ravenna
- November 7th : Rotho , Abbot of Hersfeld and Bishop of Paderborn (* around 1000 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Amadeus I , Count of Savoy (* around 1030 )
- Raoul de Gacé , Norman nobleman, guardian of William the Conqueror
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