1015

Year in topic Year 1015 (MXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (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:	1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018

1015 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1015 MXV
Ab urbe condita	1768
Armenian calendar	464 ԹՎ ՆԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	5765
Balinese saka calendar	936–937
Bengali calendar	422
Berber calendar	1965
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1559
Burmese calendar	377
Byzantine calendar	6523–6524
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3711 or 3651     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3712 or 3652
Coptic calendar	731–732
Discordian calendar	2181
Ethiopian calendar	1007–1008
Hebrew calendar	4775–4776
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1071–1072
- Shaka Samvat	936–937
- Kali Yuga	4115–4116
Holocene calendar	11015
Igbo calendar	15–16
Iranian calendar	393–394
Islamic calendar	405–406
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 4 (長和４年)
Javanese calendar	917–918
Julian calendar	1015 MXV
Korean calendar	3348
Minguo calendar	897 before ROC 民前897年
Nanakshahi calendar	−453
Seleucid era	1326/1327 AG
Thai solar calendar	1557–1558
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1141 or 760 or −12     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1142 or 761 or −11

Portrait of Cnut the Great (c. 995-1035)

Events

Europe

• Emperor Henry II launches a German expedition against Duke Bolesław I (the Brave). He invades Poland but is stopped by Bolesław's forces at Krosno on the Oder River.
• July 15 – Vladimir I (the Great) dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.
• Summer – King Cnut the Great of Denmark launches an invasion of Mercia and Northumbria in England.[1]
• Earl Eric Haakonsson outlaws berserkers in Norway.
• Olaf Haraldsson declares himself King of Norway.

Births

• Andrew I (the Catholic), king of Hungary (d. 1060)
• Altmann, bishop of Passau (approximate date)
• Ermesinda of Bigorre, queen of Aragon (d. 1049)
• Eustace II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
• Ferdinand I, king of León and Castile (d. 1065)
• Frozza Orseolo, margravine of Austria (d. 1071)
• Harald Hardrada, king of Norway (d. 1066)
• Herman IV, duke of Swabia (approximate date)
• John Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat (d. 1067)
• Michael V (Kalaphates), Byzantine emperor (d. 1042)
• Otto II, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
• Robert Guiscard, Norman nobleman (d. 1085)
• Roger de Beaumont, Norman nobleman (d. 1094)

Deaths

• February 5 – Adelaide, German abbess and saint
• February 13 – Gilbert of Meaux, French bishop
• July 15 – Vladimir I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev
• September 1 – Gero II, margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
• September 12 – Lambert I, count of Louvain (b. 950)
• December 14 – Arduin of Ivrea, king of Italy (b. 955)
• December 20 – Eido I, bishop of Meissen (b. 955)
• Æthelmær the Stout, English ealdorman
• Al-Sharif al-Radi, Persian Shi'ite scholar (b. 970)
• Gavril Radomir, emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria
• Geoffrey (or Godfrey), count of Eu (b. 962)
• Herbert III, count of Vermandois (b. 953)
• Hugh III, count of Maine (approximate date)
• Ibn Furak, Muslim imam and theologian (b. 941)
• Irene of Larissa, empress (tsarina) of Bulgaria
• Liu Zong, Chinese official of the Song Dynasty
• Masawaih al-Mardini, Syrian physician and writer
• Morcar (or Morkere), English minister (thane)
• Owain ap Dyfnwal, king of Strathclyde (Scotland)
• Rodulf of Ivry, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Sigeferth (or Sigefrith), English chief minister
• Vikramaditya V, Indian ruler of the Chalukya Empire

References

1. Williams 2005.

Sources

• Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0304357307.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)