1067 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1067
MLXVII
Ab urbe condita 1820
Armenian calendar 516
ԹՎ ՇԺԶ
Assyrian calendar 5817
Balinese saka calendar 988–989
Bengali calendar 473–474
Berber calendar 2017
English Regnal year Will. 1 – 2 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar 1611
Burmese calendar 429
Byzantine calendar 6575–6576
Chinese calendar 丙午年 (Fire Horse)
3764 or 3557
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3765 or 3558
Coptic calendar 783–784
Discordian calendar 2233
Ethiopian calendar 1059–1060
Hebrew calendar 4827–4828
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1123–1124
 - Shaka Samvat 988–989
 - Kali Yuga 4167–4168
Holocene calendar 11067
Igbo calendar 67–68
Iranian calendar 445–446
Islamic calendar 459–460
Japanese calendar Jiryaku 3
(治暦3年)
Javanese calendar 971–972
Julian calendar 1067
MLXVII
Korean calendar 3400
Minguo calendar 845 before ROC
民前845年
Nanakshahi calendar −401
Seleucid era 1378/1379 AG
Thai solar calendar 1609–1610
Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1193 or 812 or 40
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
1194 or 813 or 41
Emperor Shen Zong (1048–1085)

Year 1067 (MLXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • May 22 – Emperor Constantine X dies after a 7-year reign at Constantinople. His wife, Empress Eudocia Macrembolitissa, is crowned Augusta and becomes co-regent for her two sons (Michael VII and Konstantios) along with Constantine's brother John Doukas, who rules as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.[1]

Seljuk Empire

  • Spring – The Seljuk Turks make incursions into Mesopotamia, Cilicia and Cappadocia. They sack the Byzantine city of Caesarea, move south through the Cilician Gates and raid the region around Antioch in Syria.[2]

Europe

  • March 3Battle on the Nemiga River: The three sons of Grand Prince Yaroslav I (the Wise) – Iziaslav I, Sviatoslav II, and Vsevolod I – defeat the forces under Vseslav of Polotsk.
  • Eric and Eric, two pretenders to the Swedish throne, are both killed during the struggle for power in Sweden. Halsten, son of the late King Stenkil, becomes the new ruler.
  • Olaf III returns to Norway with the remaining troops from the Battle of Stamford Bridge. He is proclaimed king and co-ruler with his older brother Magnus II (Haraldsson).
  • Wartburg Castle (near Eisenach) is founded by Louis the Springer, count of Thuringia (modern Germany).
  • Minsk and Orsha are first mentioned in the chronicles, making them two of the oldest cities in Belarus.

England

  • Spring – King William I (the Conqueror) returns to Normandy and takes with him Edgar Ætheling (grandson of Edmund Ironside), Archbishop Stigand, and the brothers Morcar and Edwin.
  • Odo of Bayeux, a half-brother of William I, is appointed Earl of Kent and becomes William's deputy (or de facto regent) in England. His wealth and land become considerable.
  • Eustace II, count of Boulogne, supports the Kentishmen in an attempt to seize Dover Castle. The conspiracy fails, and Eustace is sentenced to forfeit his English fiefs.
  • Winter – William I marches on Exeter, which he besieges. The city holds out for 18 days, and after its fall William builds Rougemont Castle there to secure the region.
  • Winchester Castle in Hampshire is founded by William I; it is later one of the seats of government of the Norman kings ruling England.[3]

China

  • January 25Emperor Yingzong (or Zhao Shu) of the Song dynasty dies after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his 18-year-old son Shen Zong as emperor of China.

By topic

Religion

  • December 6 – A fire, the second in as many years, heavily damages Canterbury Cathedral in England.[4]

Births

  • Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi, Persian scholar and historian (d. 1142)
  • Adela of Normandy, countess of Blois (approximate date)
  • Ari Thorgilsson, Icelandic chronicler and writer (d. 1148)
  • John Taronites, Byzantine governor (approximate date)

Deaths

  • January 25Ying Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1032)
  • February 13Geoffrey II, French nobleman
  • April 17Robert de Turlande, French priest
  • May 22Constantine X, Byzantine emperor (b. 1006)
  • July 12John Komnenos, Byzantine general
  • September 1Baldwin V, count of Flanders
  • November 27Sancha of León, queen of León
  • December 2Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar (b. 995)
  • Aedh Ua Con Ceanainn, king of Uí Díarmata
  • Bahmanyār, Persian philosopher and logician
  • Cai Xiang, Chinese calligrapher and poet (b. 1012)
  • Elisaveta Yaroslavna of Kiev, Norwegian queen
  • Eric and Eric, Swedish throne pretenders
  • Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman (b. 1007)
  • Muireadhach Ua Cárthaigh, Irish chief poet
  • Richard, French nobleman (House of Normandy)
  • Wulfwig (or Wulfinus), bishop of Dorchester

References

  1. ^ John Julius Norwich (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee – The Choice of Emperor, p. 343. ISBN 0-394-53779-3.
  2. ^ Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 132. ISBN 978-184884-215-1.
  3. ^ Derek Keene; Alexander R. Rumble (1985). Survey of Medieval Winchester. Oxford University Press. pp. 101–2.
  4. ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, p. 24. Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876)