1057

Year 1057 (MLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1054 1055 1056 – 1057 – 1058 1059 1060

Isaac I (c. 1007–1060)

Events

By place

Africa

• The Banu Hilal take Kairouan. The Zirid dynasty has to move to Mahdiya.

Asia

• King Anawrahta of Burma takes over Thanton in northern Thailand, strengthening Theravada Buddhism in the country.

Europe

• King Macbeth of Scotland is killed in battle against Malcolm III of Scotland. He is replaced as King of Scotland by his stepson Lulach.
• William the Conqueror defeats a Franco-Angevin army at the mouth of the Dives River, Normandy in the Battle of Varaville.
• Ferdinand I of Castile takes Lamego and Viseu from Christian lords allied to the Muslim taifas.

By topic

Religion

• August 2 – Pope Stephen IX (sometimes referred to as Stephen X) replaces Pope Victor II as the 154th pope.

Births

• Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1093)

Deaths

• Jōchō, Japanese sculptor
• March 1 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972)
• July 28 – Pope Victor II
• August 15 – King Macbeth of Scotland
• Late August – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II of England
• August 31 – Leofric, Earl of Mercia