1070
year
1070 (MLXX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1070th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 70th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 11th century, and the 1st year of the 1070s decade. As of the start of 1070, 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: | 1040s 1050s 1060s – 1070s – 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1067 1068 1069 – 1070 – 1071 1072 1073 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1070 MLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1823 |
| Armenian calendar | 519 ԹՎ ՇԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5820 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 991–992 |
| Bengali calendar | 477 |
| Berber calendar | 2020 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Will. 1 – 5 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1614 |
| Burmese calendar | 432 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6578–6579 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3766 or 3706 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3767 or 3707 |
| Coptic calendar | 786–787 |
| Discordian calendar | 2236 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1062–1063 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4830–4831 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1126–1127 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 991–992 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4170–4171 |
| Holocene calendar | 11070 |
| Igbo calendar | 70–71 |
| Iranian calendar | 448–449 |
| Islamic calendar | 462–463 |
| Japanese calendar | Enkyū 2 (延久２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 974–975 |
| Julian calendar | 1070 MLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3403 |
| Minguo calendar | 842 before ROC 民前842年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −398 |
| Seleucid era | 1381/1382 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1612–1613 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1196 or 815 or 43 — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1197 or 816 or 44 |
Events
change- Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.
- Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completes the Kutadgu Bilig.
- Bergen, Norway is founded by the king Olav Kyrre. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.
- Abu Bakr Ibn-Umar founds Marrakesh.
- Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi starts the Xining Reforms (which last until 1085).
- The Temple of Literature is established in the capital of Vietnam.
- A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuk Turks across the Euphrates.
- Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.