1056

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1053 1054 1055 – 1056 – 1057 1058 1059

1056 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1056 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1056 MLVI
Ab urbe condita	1809
Armenian calendar	505 ԹՎ ՇԵ
Assyrian calendar	5806
Bengali calendar	463
Berber calendar	2006
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1600
Burmese calendar	418
Byzantine calendar	6564–6565
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3752 or 3692     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3753 or 3693
Coptic calendar	772–773
Discordian calendar	2222
Ethiopian calendar	1048–1049
Hebrew calendar	4816–4817
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1112–1113
- Shaka Samvat	978–979
- Kali Yuga	4157–4158
Holocene calendar	11056
Igbo calendar	56–57
Iranian calendar	434–435
Islamic calendar	447–448
Japanese calendar	Tengi 4 (天喜４年)
Julian calendar	1056 MLVI
Korean calendar	3389
Minguo calendar	856 before ROC 民前856年
Seleucid era	1367/1368 AG
Thai solar calendar	1598–1599

Year 1056 (MLVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Anselm leaves Italy.
• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany.
• Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria.
• The Pagoda of Fugong Temple of Shanxi in northern China is built during the Liao Dynasty. Work begins on the Pizhi Pagoda of Lingyan Temple, Shandong, China, under the opposing Song Dynasty.
• The Muslims expel 300 Christians from Jerusalem, and European Christians are forbidden to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
• Macedonian dynasty ends in Byzantine Empire.

Births

• Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut (d. 1098)

Deaths

• August 31 – Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 981)
• October 5 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
• Abu L'Ala al-Ma'arri, Syrian poet

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