1017 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1017
MXVII
Ab urbe condita 1770
Armenian calendar 466
ԹՎ ՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar 5767
Balinese saka calendar 938–939
Bengali calendar 423–424
Berber calendar 1967
English Regnal year N/A
Buddhist calendar 1561
Burmese calendar 379
Byzantine calendar 6525–6526
Chinese calendar 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3714 or 3507
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3715 or 3508
Coptic calendar 733–734
Discordian calendar 2183
Ethiopian calendar 1009–1010
Hebrew calendar 4777–4778
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1073–1074
 - Shaka Samvat 938–939
 - Kali Yuga 4117–4118
Holocene calendar 11017
Igbo calendar 17–18
Iranian calendar 395–396
Islamic calendar 407–408
Japanese calendar Chōwa 6 / Kannin 1
(寛仁元年)
Javanese calendar 919–920
Julian calendar 1017
MXVII
Korean calendar 3350
Minguo calendar 895 before ROC
民前895年
Nanakshahi calendar −451
Seleucid era 1328/1329 AG
Thai solar calendar 1559–1560
Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1143 or 762 or −10
    — to —
མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Fire-Snake)
1144 or 763 or −9
Sculpture of Rajendra I (r. 1014–1044)

Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

Europe

  • Summer – Melus of Bari, a Lombard nobleman, revolts and is supported by Norman mercenaries at Capua. He marches into Apulia to catch the Byzantine army off-guard. Melus defeats the Byzantines on the banks of the Fortore River and ravages the territory in Apulia.
  • Winter – Emperor Basil II ("the Bulgar Slayer") replaces Leo Tornikios with the new catapan Basil Boioannes and sends him reinforcements (including a detachment of the elite Varangian Guard) from Constantinople.

England

  • January 6 – Cnut ("the Great") is crowned king of England. In July he marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Æthelred the Unready, securing his ties with Normandy.[1]
  • Cnut divides England into four earldoms: Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.[1]

Arabian Empire

  • Summer – Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion, during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Africa

  • The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.[2]

Asia

  • March – Fujiwara no Michinaga passes the title of regent of Japan (Sesshō) to his eldest son Fujiwara no Yorimichi.
  • September
    • Prince Atsuakira of Japan, eldest son of ex-Emperor Sanjō, having been struck by a skin disease and under intense pressure from Michinaga, resigns the title of Crown Prince in favour of his younger brother, Prince Atsunaga[3] who marries Fujiwara no Kanshi, daughter of Michinaga.
    • Michinaga makes a pilgrimage to the Iwashimizu Shrine in Japan accompanied by many courtiers. The travelers divide themselves amongst 15 boats for a floating trip down the Yotogawa River. One of the vessels overturns and more than 30 people lose their lives.[3]
  • December 24 – Michinaga is granted the honorary title Daijō-daijin of Japan.
  • Rajendra I, ruler of the Chola dynasty (in modern India), conquers Sri Lanka and annexes the island.[4]

By topic

Religion

  • Construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv is started (approximate date).

Births

  • October 28 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)[5]
  • Ahimaaz ben Paltiel, Italian-Jewish liturgical poet (d. 1060)
  • Bermudo III (or Vermudo), king of León (approximate date)
  • Floris I, count of Friesland west of the Vlie (approximate date)
  • Ramanuja, Indian Sri Vaishnavism philosopher (d. 1137)
  • Vikramabahu (Kassapa VI), king of Sri Lanka (d. 1041)
  • Zhou Dunyi, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1073)

Deaths

  • February 5 – Sancho García, count of Castile
  • June 5 – Sanjō, ex-emperor of Japan (b. 976)
  • June 22 – Leo Passianos, Byzantine general
  • July 6 – Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (b. 942)
  • September 18 – Henry of Schweinfurt, German nobleman
  • October 6 – Wang Dan, Chinese Grand Chancellor
  • Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia
  • Eadwig Ætheling, son of Æthelred II
  • Elvira of Castile, queen consort of León
  • Emnilda, duchess consort of Poland
  • Fujiwara no Junshi, Japanese empress (b. 957)
  • Judith of Brittany, duchess of Normandy (b. 982)
  • Ma'mun II, Ma'munid ruler of Khwarezm
  • Ramon Borrell, count of Barcelona (b. 972)
  • Renaud of Vendôme, French nobleman

References

  1. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd; Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.
  2. ^ Meynier 2010.
  3. ^ a b Titsingh, Isaac (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran, ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 156–7. OCLC 5850691.
  4. ^ Agnihotri 2010.
  5. ^ "Henry III – Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 17, 2018.

Sources

  • Agnihotri, V. K. (2010). "South India". Indian History with Objective Questions and Historical Maps (26 ed.). Allied Publishers. p. 59. ISBN 978-8184243406.
  • Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) (in French). Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 978-2707152312.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)