1079

Year 1079 (MLXXIX) was a common 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:	1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s
Years:	1076 1077 1078 1079 1080 1081 1082

1079 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1079 MLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1832
Armenian calendar	528 ԹՎ ՇԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5829
Balinese saka calendar	1000–1001
Bengali calendar	486
Berber calendar	2029
English Regnal year	13 Will. 1 – 14 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1623
Burmese calendar	441
Byzantine calendar	6587–6588
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3775 or 3715     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3776 or 3716
Coptic calendar	795–796
Discordian calendar	2245
Ethiopian calendar	1071–1072
Hebrew calendar	4839–4840
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1135–1136
- Shaka Samvat	1000–1001
- Kali Yuga	4179–4180
Holocene calendar	11079
Igbo calendar	79–80
Iranian calendar	457–458
Islamic calendar	471–472
Japanese calendar	Jōryaku 3 (承暦３年)
Javanese calendar	983–984
Julian calendar	1079 MLXXIX
Korean calendar	3412
Minguo calendar	833 before ROC 民前833年
Nanakshahi calendar	−389
Seleucid era	1390/1391 AG
Thai solar calendar	1621–1622
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1205 or 824 or 52     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1206 or 825 or 53

Murder of Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków

Events

Europe

• April 11 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, bishop of Kraków, is executed on orders by King Bolesław II the Generous. The way in which his sentence is carried out causes a revolt among the Polish nobles. Bolesław is forced to flee, to take refuge at the court of King Ladislaus I of Hungary. He is succeeded by his brother Władysław I, as ruler of Poland.[1]
• Battle of Cabra: Moorish forces, aided by Castilian knights under El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz), defeat and rout the invading army of Emir Abdallah ibn Buluggin of Granada, near the town of Cabra (modern Spain).
• Emperor Henry IV appoints Frederick I as duke of Swabia at Hohenstaufen Castle. Henry's 7-year-old daughter Agnes of Waiblingen is betrothed to Frederick who founds the Hohenstaufen Dynasty.
• Upon the death of Håkan the Red, Halsten Stenkilsson returns as king of Sweden, jointly with his brother Inge the Elder (approximate date).

England

• King William the Conqueror establishes the New Forest in Southern England. He proclaims it as a royal forest, using it for hunting, mainly of deer.[2]

Seljuk Empire

• The Seljuk Turks under Sultan Suleiman ibn Qutulmish reach and occupy the western coast of Asia Minor, an area known since the Archaic Period (c. 800–c. 500 BC) as Ionia (modern Turkey).[3]

Astronomy

• Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician and astronomer, Khayyam calculates a 33 year calendar consisted of 25 ordinary years that include 365 days, and 8 leap years that include 366 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. Khayyam, in his Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produces a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions (approximate date).

Religion

• Constance, queen of Castile and León, founds a monastery in Burgos (approximate date).

Births

• February 11 – Yejong, king of Goryeo (d. 1122)
• April – Urraca, queen regnant of León, Castile and Galicia (d. 1126)
• August 8 – Horikawa, emperor of Japan (d. 1107)
• Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Fatimid scholar and writer (d. 1180)
• Berardo dei Marsi, Italian cardinal and bishop (d. 1130)
• Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard, French noblewoman (d. 1151)
• Gampopa, Tibetan Buddhist monk and teacher (d. 1153)
• Kilij Arslan I, sultan of the Sultanate of Rum (d. 1107)
• Liu, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (d. 1113)
• Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher (d. 1142)[4]
• Zheng, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (d. 1131)
• Approximate date – Diepold III, margrave of Vohburg

Deaths

• January 8 – Adela of France, countess of Flanders (b. 1009)
• February 22 – John of Fécamp, Italian-Norman abbot
• April 11 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Polish bishop (b. 1030)
• August 2 – Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince
• August 5 – Hezilo (or Hettilo), bishop of Hildesheim
• November 16 – Cao, empress of the Song dynasty (b. 1016)
• Adelaide of Savoy, duchess of Swabia (approximate date)
• Aedh Ua Flaithbheartaigh, king of Iar Connacht
• Al-Jayyānī, Arab scholar and mathematician (b. 989)
• Atsiz ibn Uvaq, Turkish emir of Damascus (or 1078)
• Cellach húa Rúanada, Irish chief ollam and poet
• Håkan the Red, king of Sweden (approximate date)
• Íñigo López, Spanish nobleman (approximate date)
• John of Avranches, French archbishop and writer
• Odo of Rennes, duke and regent of Brittany (b. 999)
• Roger d'Ivry (or Perceval), Norman nobleman
• Wen Tong, Chinese painter and calligrapher (b. 1019)

References

1. Richard Brzezinski (1998). History of Poland: The successors of Bolesław the Brave, p. 19. ISBN 83-7212-019-6.
2. "Take a stroll through a piece of old England". The Independent. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
3. Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 159. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
4. King, Peter (2015). "Peter Abelard". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved July 28, 2018.