1088

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Years:	1085 1086 1087 – 1088 – 1089 1090 1091

1088 by topic

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1088 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1088 MLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1841
Armenian calendar	537 ԹՎ ՇԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5838
Bengali calendar	495
Berber calendar	2038
English Regnal year	1 Will. 2 – 2 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1632
Burmese calendar	450
Byzantine calendar	6596–6597
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3784 or 3724     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3785 or 3725
Coptic calendar	804–805
Discordian calendar	2254
Ethiopian calendar	1080–1081
Hebrew calendar	4848–4849
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1144–1145
- Shaka Samvat	1010–1011
- Kali Yuga	4189–4190
Holocene calendar	11088
Igbo calendar	88–89
Iranian calendar	466–467
Islamic calendar	480–481
Japanese calendar	Kanji 2 (寛治２年)
Julian calendar	1088 MLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3421
Minguo calendar	824 before ROC 民前824年
Seleucid era	1399/1400 AG
Thai solar calendar	1630–1631

Year 1088 (MLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• Mansur ibn Nasir succeeds Nasir ibn Alnas as ruler of the Hammadid Dynasty.

Europe

• The Rebellion of 1088 against William II of England is led by Odo of Bayeux.
• The 6.5 Ms Tmogvi earthquake affects the Kingdom of Georgia, causing severe damage and many deaths.
• Almoravid campaign in al-Andalus. Yusuf ibn Tashfin besieges Aledo but is forced to retreat by the arrival on the scene of the troops of King Alfonso of Leon and Castile.^[1]
• The troops of the count of Barcelona reconquer the ancient archiepiscopal see of Tarragona (lost again in 1108). Berenguer de Lluçanés becomes the city's new archbishop^[2]

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Arts and culture

• The Dream Pool Essays is published in this year by the polymath Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo. His book represents the earliest known writing about the magnetic compass, movable type printing, experimentation with the camera obscura only decades after Ibn al-Haytham, and includes many different fields of study in essay and encyclopedic form, including geology, astronomy, botany, zoology, mineralogy, anatomy, pharmacology, geography, optics, economics, military strategy, philosophy, etc. Some of Shen's most advanced theories include geomorphology and gradual climate change, while he improves Chinese astronomy by fixing the position of the pole star and correcting the lunar error by plotting its orbital course every night for a continuum of five years. Shen's book is also the first to describe the drydock in China, and discusses the advantages of the relatively recent invention of the canal pound lock over the old flash lock.
• The Chinese polymath statesman and scientist Su Song has the successful pilot model for his astronomical clock tower constructed in Kaifeng, China. It features an escapement mechanism and the world's oldest known endless power-transmitting chain drive to operate the armillary sphere, opening doors, and mechanical-driven mannequins that would rotate in shifts to announce the time on plaques.

Education

• The oldest extant university, the University of Bologna, is founded.

Religion

• March 12 – Pope Urban II succeeds Pope Victor III as the 159th pope.
• Work begins on the third and largest church at Cluny.

Births

• date unknown – Saint Irene of Hungary, Byzantine empress (d. 1134)

Deaths

• January 6 – Berengar of Tours, French theologian
• June 24 – William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman aristocrat
• date unknown – Naser Khosrow, Persian theologian

References

1. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.83.
2. McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.