1069
year
1069 (MLXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1069th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 69th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 11th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1069, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1030s 1040s 1050s – 1060s – 1070s 1080s 1090s |
| Years: | 1066 1067 1068 – 1069 – 1070 1071 1072 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1069 MLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1822 |
| Armenian calendar | 518 ԹՎ ՇԺԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5819 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 990–991 |
| Bengali calendar | 476 |
| Berber calendar | 2019 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Will. 1 – 4 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1613 |
| Burmese calendar | 431 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6577–6578 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3765 or 3705 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3766 or 3706 |
| Coptic calendar | 785–786 |
| Discordian calendar | 2235 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1061–1062 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4829–4830 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1125–1126 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 990–991 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4169–4170 |
| Holocene calendar | 11069 |
| Igbo calendar | 69–70 |
| Iranian calendar | 447–448 |
| Islamic calendar | 461–462 |
| Japanese calendar | Jiryaku 5 / Enkyū 1 (延久元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 973–974 |
| Julian calendar | 1069 MLXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3402 |
| Minguo calendar | 843 before ROC 民前843年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −399 |
| Seleucid era | 1380/1381 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1611–1612 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1195 or 814 or 42 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1196 or 815 or 43 |
Events
change- Harrying of the North: King William of England (William the Conqueror) reacts to rebellions made by his Anglo Saxon subjects against him. He rides through the north of England with his army and burns houses, crops, cattle and land from York to Durham, which results in the deaths of over 100,000 people, mainly from starvation and winter cold.
- William the Conqueror founds the Norman Selby Abbey.
- Abbad III al-Mu'tamid succeeds his father on the throne of Sevilla.
- Shenzong appoints Wang Anshi as his chief counsellor.
- Wang Anshi, chancellor of the Chinese Song Dynasty, implements the New Policies, which include financial reforms, raising the salaries of officials to reduce corruption, institution of the baojia system, etc.
- Start of Nam tiến, the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam.[1]
- Magnus II of Norway dies and Olav III becomes sole King of Norway.
- The Seljuk Turks fail to capture Iconium, following a Byzantine counter-attack launched from Syria.
Deaths
change- Aldred, archbishop of York
- Ibn Hazm, Muslim philosopher and theologian
References
change- ↑ Nguyen The Anh (1989). "Le Nam tien dans les textes Vietnamiens". In Lafont, P. B. (ed.). Les frontieres du Vietnam. Paris: Edition l’Harmattan.