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Calendar overview 1079
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| 1079 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 527/528 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1071/72 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1622/23 (southern Buddhism); 1621/22 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 62nd (63rd) cycle
Year of the Earth- Sheep 己未 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Horse 戊午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 441/442 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 457/458 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 471/472 (July 3-4) |
| Jewish calendar | 4839/40 (August 30/31) |
| Coptic calendar | 795/796 |
| Malayalam calendar | 254/255 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1389/90 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1390/91 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1117 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1135/36 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Holy Roman Empire
- Easter: Friedrich I is awarded the Duchy of Swabia . The rise of the Hohenstaufen begins.
Reconquista
- El Cid defeats the Emir Abd Allah of Granada in the Battle of Cabra .
- King Alfonso VI of León , Castile and Galicia defeated the Emir of Badajoz , Al-Mutawwakkil, in the Battle of Coria , conquered the city and occupied large parts of the principality of the Dhun-Nunids of Toledo .
- Alfonso VI marries Constance of Burgundy in the late year .
Africa
- Kedus Harbe follows his brother Yemrehana Krestos as the negus of Ethiopia from the Zagwe dynasty .
religion
- April 11th : Bishop Stanislaus of Cracow is murdered on the orders of the Polish King Bolesław II . His successor as Bishop of Cracow is Lambert III.
- April 20 : With the papal bull Antiqua sanctorum patrum , Pope Gregory VII restructures the Catholic Church in France in order to strengthen his position in the investiture dispute . The previous diocese of Lyon is elevated to an archdiocese with this bull and various church provinces are assigned to it.
- Udo von Gleichen-Reinhausen succeeds Hezilo , who died on August 5th, as Bishop of Hildesheim .
Born
- Gampopa , founder of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana) († 1153 )
- Kiliç Arslan I , Seljuk Sultan of Rum († 1107 )
- Pierre Abelard , French theologian and philosopher († 1142 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 8 : Adela of France , Countess of Flanders and saint (* around 1010 )
- April 11 : Stanislaus of Cracow , Bishop of Cracow (* around 1030 )
- May 5th : Eberhard , Bishop of Naumburg
- August 5th : Hezilo of Hildesheim , Bishop of Hildesheim (* around 1022 )
- October 25th : Landulf of Pisa , Bishop of Pisa
- November 14th : Werner II. , Bishop of Strasbourg (* around 1048 )
- December 2nd : Mabile de Bellême , wife of the Norman Baron Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
Exact date of death unknown
- Adelheid von Turin , wife of Rudolf von Rheinfelden (* around 1050 )
- Elî Herîrî , Kurdish poet (* 1009 )
- Warin II , Abbot of Corvey
- Wen Tong , Chinese painter (* 1018 )
- Yemrehana Krestos , negus negest of Ethiopia
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