1097

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1097 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1097 MXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1850
Armenian calendar	546 ԹՎ ՇԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5847
Bengali calendar	504
Berber calendar	2047
English Regnal year	10 Will. 2 – 11 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1641
Burmese calendar	459
Byzantine calendar	6605–6606
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3793 or 3733     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3794 or 3734
Coptic calendar	813–814
Discordian calendar	2263
Ethiopian calendar	1089–1090
Hebrew calendar	4857–4858
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1153–1154
- Shaka Samvat	1019–1020
- Kali Yuga	4198–4199
Holocene calendar	11097
Igbo calendar	97–98
Iranian calendar	475–476
Islamic calendar	490–491
Japanese calendar	Eichō 2 / Jōtoku 1 (承徳元年)
Julian calendar	1097 MXCVII
Korean calendar	3430
Minguo calendar	815 before ROC 民前815年
Seleucid era	1408/1409 AG
Thai solar calendar	1639–1640

Year 1097 (MXCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Edgar deposes Donald III and Edmund to become king of Scotland.
• The First Crusade proceeds towards Palestine:
  • June 3 – the Norman crusaders join the rest of the army during the siege of Nicaea.^[1]
  • June 19 – the city of Nicaea falls to the Crusaders after a month siege.
  • July 1 – Crusaders win the Battle of Dorylaeum and capture Latakia from the Seljuk Turks.
  • October 21 – the siege of Antioch by the crusaders begins..^[2]
  • December 31 – at the battle of Harenc, the crusaders defeat the troops from Aleppo trying to come to the relief of besieged Antioch.^[3]
• Croatian King Petar Svačić dies as the last Croatian king in the Battle of Gvozd Mountain against the army of the King Coloman of Hungary
• New Almoravid campaign in al-Andalus.^[4]

Births

• March 15 – Fujiwara no Tadamichi, Japanese noble (died 1164)

Deaths

• January/February – Odo of Bayeux
• June 6 – Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
• date unknown
  • Marpa Lotsawa
  • Sweyn the Crusader
  • Petar Svačić, King of Croatia

References

1. Abels, Richard Philip; Bernard S. Bachrach (2001). The Normans and their adversaries at war. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 92. ISBN 0-85115-847-1.
2. Rickard, J. "Antioch, crusader siege of, 21 October 1097-3 June 1098". Retrieved 4 January 2012.
3. Rickard, J. "Battle of Harenc, 9 February 1098". Retrieved 4 January 2012.
4. Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.