1043

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1040 1041 1042 – 1043 – 1044 1045 1046

1043 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1043 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1043 MXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1796
Armenian calendar	492 ԹՎ ՆՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	5793
Bengali calendar	450
Berber calendar	1993
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1587
Burmese calendar	405
Byzantine calendar	6551–6552
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3739 or 3679     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3740 or 3680
Coptic calendar	759–760
Discordian calendar	2209
Ethiopian calendar	1035–1036
Hebrew calendar	4803–4804
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1099–1100
- Shaka Samvat	965–966
- Kali Yuga	4144–4145
Holocene calendar	11043
Igbo calendar	43–44
Iranian calendar	421–422
Islamic calendar	434–435
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 4 (長久４年)
Julian calendar	1043 MXLIII
Korean calendar	3376
Minguo calendar	869 before ROC 民前869年
Seleucid era	1354/1355 AG
Thai solar calendar	1585–1586

Year 1043 (MXLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 3 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral.
• October 31 – Venus occults Jupiter.
• November 21 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, marries Agnes of Poitou at Ingelheim am Rhein.
• Rus'–Byzantine War (1043).
• The revolt of George Maniakes against Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX ends when Maniakes is killed in battle near Thessalonica.
• The Ziyarid dynasty of Persia is crushed by the Seljuks.
• In Song dynasty China, the statesmen Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan put forth the Qingli Reforms, which are halted by 1045.
• The Norman brothers, William Iron Arm and Drogo de Hauteville, assume power in Apulia.
• The first king of the Kingdom of Nri, Eze Nri Ìfikuánim is installed in West Africa.

Births

• Fulk IV, Count of Anjou
• Abu Muhammad Baghawi, Persian traditionalist
• El Cid Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar of Castile (d. 1099). National hero of Spain.

Deaths

• George Maniakes, Byzantine general
• Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empress (b. 989)

References