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Calendar overview 1053
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 defend their property in southern Italy against a papal army. |
 becomes Earl of Wessex . |
| 1053 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 501/502 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1045/46 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1596/97 (southern Buddhism); 1595/96 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 62nd (63rd) cycle
Year of the Water Snake癸巳 ( at the beginning of the year Water Dragon 壬辰) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 415/416 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 431/432 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 444/445 (April 22-23) |
| Jewish calendar | 4813/14 (September 15/16) |
| Coptic calendar | 769/770 |
| Malayalam calendar | 228/229 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1363/64 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1364/65 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1091 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1109/10 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Kingdom of England
- April 15 : With the death of his father Godwin of Wessex , Harold Godwinson becomes Earl of Wessex and thus the second most powerful man in England . Godwin's younger son, Leofwine Godwinson , becomes Earl of Kent .
Southern Italy
- June 18 : In the Battle of Civitate , the Normans, led by Richard von Aversa , Humfred von Hauteville and Robert Guiskard, defeat a superior papal army. Pope Leo IX falls into captivity and has to recognize the Norman possessions in southern Italy .
Holy Roman Empire
- The Bavarian Duke Konrad I , who since his installation in 1049 with Emperor Heinrich III. has come into conflict, this is canceled. He then flees to Andreas I in Hungary, with whom he allies against the emperor.
First documentary mentions
- Gnotzheim is first mentioned in a document.
religion
- Adalbero von Eppenstein becomes Bishop of Bamberg as the successor to Hartwig, who died at the beginning of the year .
Born
Date of birth saved
Exact date of birth unknown
- Dietrich V , Count of Holland († 1091 )
- Hugo of Grenoble , French bishop († 1132 )
- Vladimir Vsevolodowitsch Monomakh , Kiev Grand Duke († 1125 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 25th : Prokop , Czech saint and priest (* around 970 )
- April 15 : Godwin, Earl of Wessex , English nobleman (* around 1001 )
- June 18 : Adalbert II , Count of Winterthur (* around 1025 )
- June 18 : Werner II. , Count von Maden (* around 1020 )
- October 25th : Enguerrand II , Count of Ponthieu
Exact date of death unknown
- October: Wulfsige , Bishop of Lichfield
- Hartwig , German Chancellor and Bishop of Bamberg
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