Year 1015 (MXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Asia

• October Influential Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed to be Associate Regent.

• November The newly constructed Japanese imperial residence burns down.

• Peacocks arrive from the Chinese Song Empire to Fujiwara's mansion in Japan.

Europe

• July 15 Vladimir 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.

• 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.

• Earl Eric Haakonsson outlaws berserkers in Norway.

• Olaf Haraldsson declares himself King of Norway.</onlyinclude>

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 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)

date unknown

• 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 (thegn)

• 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

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