1085

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1050s  1060s  1070s  – 1080s –  1090s  1100s  1110s
Years:	1082 1083 1084 – 1085 – 1086 1087 1088

1085 by topic

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State leaders

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Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1085 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1085 MLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1838
Armenian calendar	534 ԹՎ ՇԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	5835
Bengali calendar	492
Berber calendar	2035
English Regnal year	19 Will. 1 – 20 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1629
Burmese calendar	447
Byzantine calendar	6593–6594
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3781 or 3721     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3782 or 3722
Coptic calendar	801–802
Discordian calendar	2251
Ethiopian calendar	1077–1078
Hebrew calendar	4845–4846
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1141–1142
- Shaka Samvat	1007–1008
- Kali Yuga	4186–4187
Holocene calendar	11085
Igbo calendar	85–86
Iranian calendar	463–464
Islamic calendar	477–478
Japanese calendar	Ōtoku 2 (応徳２年)
Julian calendar	1085 MLXXXV
Korean calendar	3418
Minguo calendar	827 before ROC 民前827年
Seleucid era	1396/1397 AG
Thai solar calendar	1627–1628

Year 1085 (MLXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 2 – Emperor Zhezong becomes emperor of Song Dynasty. Empress Dowager Gao cancells all the reforms packages and dismisses pro-reform Wang Anshi.
• May 25 – Alfonso VI of Castile enters the Islamic city of Toledo, Spain, and invites French knights to settle the central plateau of Spain.
• The Domesday survey is commissioned by William I of England, apparently prompted by the abortive invasion of Canute IV of Denmark, to ensure proper taxation and levies.
• Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over his entire empire.
• Katedralskolan, Lund, the oldest school in Scandinavia, is founded.
• Vratislav, Duke of Bohemia, is crowned King.
• By this year, the annual output of copper currency for the Chinese Song Dynasty reaches 6 billion coins a year, prompting the Chinese government to adopt the world's first paper-printed money later in the 1120s.

Births

• Alberich of Reims (d. 1141)
• Raoul I, Count of Vermandois (d. 1152)
• Robert fitz Martin, Norman knight and first Lord of Cemais, Wales (d. 1159)
• Zhang Zeduan, Chinese painter (d. 1145)

Deaths

• April 1 – Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)
• May 25 – Pope Gregory VII
• July 15 – Robert Guiscard
• August 19 – Al-Juwayni , Muslim Scholar and Imam, Imam al Haramayn. (born 1028)
• Cheng Hao, Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher (b. 1032)

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