Wikipedia / 1036
Wikipedia / 1036
Year 1036 (MXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Europe
Summer In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.
England
February 5 Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.
Africa
June 13 Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.
China
The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia.
Japan
May 15 Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.
By topic
Religion
Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of the elder Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.
The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.</onlyinclude>
Births
Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086)
Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127)
Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk (d. 1060)
Deaths
February 5 Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
March 17 Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
June 13 al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)
Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard bishop
Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress (b. 999)
Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 973)
References