1046

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1043 1044 1045 – 1046 – 1047 1048 1049

1046 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1046 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1046 MXLVI
Ab urbe condita	1799
Armenian calendar	495 ԹՎ ՆՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	5796
Bengali calendar	453
Berber calendar	1996
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1590
Burmese calendar	408
Byzantine calendar	6554–6555
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3742 or 3682     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3743 or 3683
Coptic calendar	762–763
Discordian calendar	2212
Ethiopian calendar	1038–1039
Hebrew calendar	4806–4807
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1102–1103
- Shaka Samvat	968–969
- Kali Yuga	4147–4148
Holocene calendar	11046
Igbo calendar	46–47
Iranian calendar	424–425
Islamic calendar	437–438
Japanese calendar	Kantoku 3 / Eishō 1 (永承元年)
Julian calendar	1046 MXLVI
Korean calendar	3379
Minguo calendar	866 before ROC 民前866年
Seleucid era	1357/1358 AG
Thai solar calendar	1588–1589

Year 1046 (MXLVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 5 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he later describes in his book Safarnameh.
• July – Ex-Pope Benedict IX gives up a renewed attempt to reclaim the papal throne.
• December 20 – Pope Gregory VI is accused of simony at the Council of Sutri, and abdicates as pope.
• December 25 – Pope Clement II succeeds Pope Gregory VI as the 149th pope and crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor.
• The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks.
• Vatha Pagan Revolt in Hungary: Gerard of Csanád is martyred in Buda.
• Munjong is crowned 11th King of Goryeo (Korea).
• Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, leads troops from England on an unsuccessful punitive raid against Welsh leaders Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.^[1][2]
• The original Hildesheim Cathedral is largely destroyed by fire.
• Song Dynasty Chinese judge and magistrate Bao Zheng (Bao Qingtian) writes a memorial to the throne, warning about governmental corruption and a foreseeable bankruptcy of the Chinese iron industry, if increasingly poorer families continued to be listed on the register for iron-smelting households (while more rich households avoid being listed for fear of financial calamity). Apparently the government heeds the warning, and produces more iron product by the year 1078 than China ever had before.

Births

• Matilda of Tuscany (d. 1114) (approximate date)

Deaths

• 6 April Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (b. 1000)
• Gerard of Csanád, missionary to Hungary
• Gothelo II of Lower Lorraine
• Abbot Oliba, Catalan religious figure

References

1. Huscroft, Richard (2005). Ruling England 1042–1217. London: Pearson Longman. p. 49. ISBN 0-582-84882-2.
2. Maund, Kari L. (2006). The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes. Stroud: Tempus. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-7524-2973-6.