1020 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1020
MXX
Ab urbe condita 1773
Armenian calendar 469
ԹՎ ՆԿԹ
Assyrian calendar 5770
Balinese saka calendar 941–942
Bengali calendar 426–427
Berber calendar 1970
English Regnal year N/A
Buddhist calendar 1564
Burmese calendar 382
Byzantine calendar 6528–6529
Chinese calendar 己未年 (Earth Goat)
3717 or 3510
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
3718 or 3511
Coptic calendar 736–737
Discordian calendar 2186
Ethiopian calendar 1012–1013
Hebrew calendar 4780–4781
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1076–1077
 - Shaka Samvat 941–942
 - Kali Yuga 4120–4121
Holocene calendar 11020
Igbo calendar 20–21
Iranian calendar 398–399
Islamic calendar 410–411
Japanese calendar Kannin 4
(寛仁4年)
Javanese calendar 922–923
Julian calendar 1020
MXX
Korean calendar 3353
Minguo calendar 892 before ROC
民前892年
Nanakshahi calendar −448
Seleucid era 1331/1332 AG
Thai solar calendar 1562–1563
Tibetan calendar ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Earth-Sheep)
1146 or 765 or −7
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Monkey)
1147 or 766 or −6

Year 1020 (MXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

  • Summer – Emperor Henry II conducts his third Italian military campaign. He makes plans to invade the south, but remains non-committal.
  • June 15Byzantine troops under Catepan Basil Boioannes (supported by his ally Prince Pandulf IV) capture the fortress of Troia.
  • The French city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded by King Robert II (the Pious).
  • King Canute the Great codifies the laws of England (approximate date).
  • King Gagik I of Armenia is succeeded by Hovhannes-Smbat III.


Births

  • Almodis de la Marche, French noblewoman (d. 1071)
  • Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent (d. 1076)
  • Benno II, German bishop and architect (approximate date)
  • Bernard of Menthon, French priest and saint (d. 1081)
  • Conrad I (or Cuno), duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
  • Filarete of Calabria, Sicilian saint (approximate date)
  • Gonzalo Sánchez, Spanish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Gunhilda of Denmark, German queen (approximate date)
  • Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
  • Hallvard Vebjørnsson, Norwegian saint (approximate date)
  • Kunigunde of Altdorf, German noblewoman (approximate date)
  • Maria of Gaeta, Italian noblewoman (approximate date)
  • Osbern Giffard, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
  • Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
  • Su Song, Chinese statesman and scientist (d. 1101)
  • Sweyn Godwinson, English nobleman (approximate date)
  • Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1052)
  • William I (the Great), count of Burgundy (d. 1087)
  • William Busac, English nobleman (jure uxoris) (d. 1076)
  • William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (approximate date)
  • William of Poitiers, French priest and writer (d. 1090)
  • Wulfhild of Norway, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1071)
  • Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1077)

Deaths

  • June 12Lyfing, archbishop of Canterbury[1]
  • June 15Dattus (or Datto), Lombard rebel leader
  • August 16Zhou Huaizheng, Chinese eunuch
  • Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad, Muslim imam (b. 944)
  • Al-Sijzi, Persian mathematician (approximate date)
  • Bernard I (Taillefer), Spanish nobleman
  • Bouchard II (the Bearded), French nobleman (b. 975)
  • Einar Sigurdsson, Norse Viking nobleman
  • Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author (b. 940)
  • Gagik I, king of Bagratid Armenia (approximate date)
  • Gerald I (Tranche-Lion), French nobleman
  • Gojslav, king of Croatia (approximate date)
  • Leif Ericson, Norse Viking explorer (approximate date)
  • Melus of Bari, Lombard nobleman and rebel leader
  • Radim Gaudentius, Polish archbishop (b. 970)
  • Stephen I of Vermandois, French nobleman
  • Trdat the Architect, Armenian chief architect

References

  1. ^ Pryde, E. B., ed. (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 9780521563505. Retrieved November 15, 2024.