1016

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1013 1014 1015 – 1016 – 1017 1018 1019

1016 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1016 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1016 MXVI
Ab urbe condita	1769
Armenian calendar	465 ԹՎ ՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5766
Bengali calendar	423
Berber calendar	1966
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1560
Burmese calendar	378
Byzantine calendar	6524–6525
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3712 or 3652     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3713 or 3653
Coptic calendar	732–733
Discordian calendar	2182
Ethiopian calendar	1008–1009
Hebrew calendar	4776–4777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1072–1073
- Shaka Samvat	938–939
- Kali Yuga	4117–4118
Holocene calendar	11016
Igbo calendar	16–17
Iranian calendar	394–395
Islamic calendar	406–407
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 5 (長和５年)
Julian calendar	1016 MXVI
Korean calendar	3349
Minguo calendar	896 before ROC 民前896年
Seleucid era	1327/1328 AG
Thai solar calendar	1558–1559

Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• March 10 – Emperor Sanjō abdicates the throne of Japan and soon afterwards is succeeded by his cousin Emperor Go-Ichijō, aged about 8.
• Earthquakes partly destroy the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Europe

• March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson confirming his status as King of Norway.
• April 23 – Æthelred, King of England, dies, and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside.^[1]
• c. May – Battle of Brentford (near London): King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut, Prince of Denmark.^[2]
• October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only.^[1]
• November 30 – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.^[1]
• The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardinia, in particular Porto Torres, and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Dénia, Mujāhid al-‘Āmirī.^[3]
• Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.^[4]
• Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.

Births

• April 3 – Emperor Xingzong of Liao (d. 1055)
• June 9 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler or Korea (d. 1034)
• July 25 – Duke Casimir I the Restorer (Kazimierz I Odnowiciel), ruler of Poland (d. 1058)
• August 24 – Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese Empress Consort (d. 1039)
• November – García Sánchez III of Navarre (d. 1054)

• Edward the Exile – son of King Edmund Ironside of England (d. 1057)
• Empress Cao – Song Dynasty Empress Consort (d. 1079)
• Không Lộ – Vietnamese Zen master (d. 1094)
• Svein Knutsson – King of Norway (d. 1035)

Deaths

• April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, King of England (b. c.968)
• November 30 – Edmund Ironside, King of England
• Badis ibn Mansur, third ruler of the Zirid dynasty in North Africa

References

1. Williams 2005.
2. Palmer & Palmer 1992.
3. Benvenuti 1985.
4. Kleinhenz 2010.

Sources

• Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia (in Italian). Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 33. ISBN 978-8882895297.

• Kleinhenz, Christopher, ed. (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia 1. Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-0415939294.

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

• Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0304357307.