1011

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1008 1009 1010 – 1011 – 1012 1013 1014

1011 by topic

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Births – Deaths

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Establishments – Disestablishments

1011 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1011 MXI
Ab urbe condita	1764
Armenian calendar	460 ԹՎ ՆԿ
Assyrian calendar	5761
Bengali calendar	418
Berber calendar	1961
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1555
Burmese calendar	373
Byzantine calendar	6519–6520
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3707 or 3647     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3708 or 3648
Coptic calendar	727–728
Discordian calendar	2177
Ethiopian calendar	1003–1004
Hebrew calendar	4771–4772
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1067–1068
- Shaka Samvat	933–934
- Kali Yuga	4112–4113
Holocene calendar	11011
Igbo calendar	11–12
Iranian calendar	389–390
Islamic calendar	401–402
Japanese calendar	Kankō 8 (寛弘８年)
Julian calendar	1011 MXI
Korean calendar	3344
Minguo calendar	901 before ROC 民前901年
Seleucid era	1322/1323 AG
Thai solar calendar	1553–1554

Year 1011 (MXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• June 11 – The Byzantine army under the catapan Basil Mesardonites takes Bari from the rebellious Lombard lord Melus.^[1]
• September 29 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.^[2]
• Ermengol II succeeds Ermengol I as Count of Urgell
• Albert II, Count of Namur succeeds Albert I
• The German king Henry II enfeoffes Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia with the Carinthian duchy, including the rule over the March of Verona (or in 1012).
• Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey in England writes his Manual (Enchiridion) on the divine order of the universe and time.^[2]

Middle East

• Baghdad Manifesto: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah's descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib is disputed.
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), a famous Persian scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness in fear of angering Al-Hakim, and is kept under house arrest until 1021. During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.
• In Georgia, Bagrat III dispossesses Sumbat III of Klarjeti, who dies thereafter.

Eastern Asia

• The Chinese Guangyun rime dictionary is compiled under Emperor Zhenzong of Song.
• Emperor Sanjō ascends to the throne of Japan.

Births

• Eleanor of Normandy, a Norman noblewoman and the daughter of Richard II of Normandy (possible date; d. after 1071)
• Ralph the Staller, earl of East Anglia (d. 1068)
• Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1076)
• Shao Yong, Song Dynasty philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian (d. 1077)

Deaths

• February 23 – Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz and a statesman of the Holy Roman Empire (b. c. 940)
• November 21 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (b. 950)
• December 12 or December 15 – Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia (b. c. 975)
• Emperor Ichijō of Japan (b. 980)
• Albert I, Count of Namur (b. c. 950)
• Armentarius, Galician bishop (b. 983)
• Sumbat III of Klarjeti, Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the last sovereign of Klarjeti^[3]
• Yohannan V, Patriarch of the Church of the East

References

1. Norwich 1967.
2. Palmer & Palmer 1992.
3. Toumanoff 1967.

Sources

• Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South 1016–1130. Longmans. ISBN 978-0582107519.

• Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.

• Toumanoff, C. (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History. Washington D. C.: Georgetown University Press. p. 498. OCLC 901879629.