1012

Year in topic Year 1012 (MXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015

1012 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1012 MXII
Ab urbe condita	1765
Armenian calendar	461 ԹՎ ՆԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5762
Balinese saka calendar	933–934
Bengali calendar	419
Berber calendar	1962
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1556
Burmese calendar	374
Byzantine calendar	6520–6521
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3708 or 3648     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3709 or 3649
Coptic calendar	728–729
Discordian calendar	2178
Ethiopian calendar	1004–1005
Hebrew calendar	4772–4773
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1068–1069
- Shaka Samvat	933–934
- Kali Yuga	4112–4113
Holocene calendar	11012
Igbo calendar	12–13
Iranian calendar	390–391
Islamic calendar	402–403
Japanese calendar	Kankō 9 / Chōwa 1 (長和元年)
Javanese calendar	914–915
Julian calendar	1012 MXII
Korean calendar	3345
Minguo calendar	900 before ROC 民前900年
Nanakshahi calendar	−456
Seleucid era	1323/1324 AG
Thai solar calendar	1554–1555
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1138 or 757 or −15     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1139 or 758 or −14

Pope Benedict VIII (c. 980–1024)

Events

Europe

• April 12 – Oldřich, duke of Bohemia, deposes his brother Jaromír who flees to Poland. Oldřich recognises the suzerainty of King Henry II of Germany. He secures his rule by suppressing the Vršovci insurgents.

England

• Spring – King Æthelred II (the Unready) resumes the payment of Danegeld (48,000 pounds of silver) in an attempt to buy off the Viking raiders.[1]

Ireland

• Máel Mórda mac Murchada starts a rebellion against High King Brian Boru in Ireland, which ends in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf.

Scotland

• King Malcolm II reputedly defeats a Danish army at Cruden Bay (modern Scotland).

Arabian Empire

• Summer – The climax of the Bedouin anti-Fatimid rebellion in Palestine is reached. Abu'l-Futuh al-Hasan ibn Ja'far is acclaimed as anti-Caliph with the title of al-Rashid bi-llah ("Righteous with God").[2]

Mexico

• The Tepanec tribe settles on the western region of Lake Texcoco. The lineage starts when the Chichimeca chieftain Acolhua marries Cuetlaxochitzin, daughter of Xolotl, another Chichimeca chieftain.

Religion

• April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay a ransom of 3,000 pounds for his release).
• May 12 – Pope Sergius IV dies after a 3-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Benedict VIII as the 143rd pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

• August 19 – Baldwin V, count of Flanders (d. 1067)
• Benedict IX, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
• Cai Xiang, Chinese calligrapher, official and poet (d. 1067)
• Durandus of Troarn, French theologian (approximate date)
• García Sánchez III, king of Pamplona (approximate date)
• Guo, Chinese empress of the Song Dynasty (d. 1035)
• Maria Dobroniega of Kiev, duchess of Poland (d. 1087)
• Marpa Lotsawa, Tibetan Buddhist teacher (d. 1097)
• Rongzom Mahapandita, Tibetan Buddhist scholar (d. 1088)
• Theobald III of Blois, French nobleman (d. 1089)

Deaths

• April 1 – Herman III, duke of Swabia
• April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury
• May 12 – Sergius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 970)
• May 26 – Erluin II, monk and abbot of Gembloux
• June 9
  • Tagino, archbishop of Magdeburg
  • Unger, bishop of Poznań
• August 12 – Walthard, archbishop of Magdeburg
• September 12 – Ad-Da'i Yusuf, Zaidi imam and ruler
• October 18 – Coloman of Stockerau, Irish pilgrim
• December 22 – Baha' al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Iraq
• Erluin, archdeacon and bishop of Cambrai
• Gaston II Centule, viscount of Béarn
• Gundemaro Pinióliz, Spanish nobleman
• Guy of Anderlecht (or Guido), Christian saint
• Ibn Faradi, Moorish scholar and historian (b. 962)
• John II Crescentius, consul and patrician of Rome
• John Morosini (the Blessed), Venetian abbot
• Otto, duke of Lower Lorraine (approximate date)
• Qabus, Ziyarid emir of Gorgan and Tabaristan
• Roger I, count of Carcassonne (approximate date)
• Tedald of Canossa, Italian nobleman

References

1. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 381-384.
2. Gil, Moshe (1997). A History of Palestine, 634-1099. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 382–384. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.