Year 1050 (ML) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• Hedeby in Jutland is sacked by King Harald Hardrada of Norway, during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.

• King Anund Jacob dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother Emund the Old as king of Sweden.

• Macbeth, King of Scotland, makes a pilgrimage to Rome.

Africa

• Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire.

By topic

Religion

• King Edward the Confessor unites the English dioceses of Devon and Cornwall. He moves the see from Crediton to Exeter and gives the order to build a cathedral. Leofric becomes the first bishop of Exeter.

• The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey (modern Germany) is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world (approximate date).</onlyinclude>

Births

• November 11 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)

• Amadeus II, count of Savoy (approximate date)

• Berthold II, duke of Swabia (approximate date)

• Bertrand of Comminges, French bishop (d. 1126)

• Frederick I, duke of Swabia (approximate date)

• Leopold II ("the Fair"), margrave of Austria (d. 1095)

• Lhachen Gyalpo, king of Ladakh (approximate date)

• Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman (approximate date)

• Li Tang, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)

• Lope Íñiguez, lord of Biscay (approximate date)

• Michael VII Doukas, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)

• Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Arab mathematician (d. 1141)

• Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster (approximate date)

• Olaf I ("Hunger"), king of Denmark (approximate date)

• Olaf III ("the Peaceful"), king of Norway (approximate date)

• Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer (d. 1090)

• Peter the Hermit, French priest (approximate date)

• Sophia of Hungary, duchess of Saxony (approximate date)

• Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1113)

• Vidyakara, Indian Buddhist scholar (d. 1130)

Deaths

• February 10 Anna, Grand Princess of Kiev (b. 1001)

• October 29 Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury

• Alferius (or Alferio), Italian abbot and saint (b. 930)

• Anund Jacob (or James), king of Sweden (b. 1008)

• Casilda of Toledo, Spanish saint (approximate date)

• Constantine Arianites, Byzantine general

• Einar Thambarskelfir, Norwegian nobleman

• Herleva, Norman noblewoman (approximate date)

• Hugh of Langres, French bishop and theologian

• Humphrey de Vieilles, Norman nobleman

• Michael Dokeianos, Byzantine general

• Suryavarman I, king of the Khmer Empire

• Wifred II, count of Cerdanya and Berga

• Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire

References