Hovhannes-Smbat III, King of the Armenian kingdom of
Ani, is attacked by his younger brother
Ashot IV, and loses much power to him, becoming concurrent king of outlying territories.
The Chinese capital city of
Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this year. Including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
Spring – Emperor
Henry II divides his army into three columns and descends through
Rome onto
Capua after the Lombard states of Southern Italy had switched their allegiance to the Byzantinians in the wake of the battle of Cannae four years earlier. The bulk of the expeditionary force (20,000 men) led by Henry, makes its way down the
Adriatic coast.
Pilgrim, archbishop of
Cologne, marches with his army down the
Tyrrhenian coast to lay
siege to Capua. The citizens open the gates and surrender the city to the imperial army.[6]
Pilgrim besieges the city of
Salerno for forty days. Prince
Guaimar III offers to give hostages – Pilgrim accepts the prince's son and co-prince
Guaimar IV, and lifts the siege.[7]
Summer – Outbreak of the
plague among the German troops forces Henry II to abandon his campaign in
Italy. He reimposes his suzerainty on the
Lombard principalities.
The 14-year-old
Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, with support of the
Zirid nobles, takes over the government and (as a minor) ascends to the throne in
Ifriqiya (modern
Tunisia).
Asia
The Chinese military has one million registered soldiers during the
Song Dynasty, an increase since the turn of the
11th century (approximate date).
February 12 – (18 Dhu-I-qa'da 413 AH) In Spain Al-Ma'mun al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammud returns to
Cordoba to become the new Emir, after the Emir Yaḥya ibn ʿAli ibn Ḥammud al-Muʿtali bi-llāh leaves the city and moves to
Malaga. Al-Qasim reigns for 10 months before being forced out by
Abd al-Rahman V.[13]
April 10 – Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Thu'ban becomes the new
Emir of Halab (in what is now northern Syria) after Safiyy al-Dawla is dismissed by the Caliph
al-Hakim.[17]
June 15 – (17th day before the kalends of July) The body of the late
Ælfheah of Canterbury, the former
Archbishop of Canterbury who will later be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint and a martyr of the church, is reburied at Canterbury Cathedral on orders of England's
King Canute, after being moved from St. Paul's Cathedral in London on June 12 (the 3rd day before the ides of June). King Canute, whose Danish troops had murdered Archbishop Ælfheah on April 19, 1012, during Canute's invasion of England, has ordered the reburial as an atonement for Ælfheah's death.[19][20]
April/May (Jian 3, 4th month) – An epidemic in
Kyoto (Japan) is so severe that there are corpses in the streets;[citation needed] disease spreads throughout the country.
60th birthday and longevity ceremony of Japanese matriarch Minamoto no Rinshi, wife of
Fujiwara no Michinaga.
January 21 – Chifuru, daughter of powerful Japanese court official
Fujiwara no Sanesuke (rival of
Fujiwara no Michinaga) has her mogi ceremony. Sanesuke wants to make his daughter an imperial consort which causes the dislike of Empress Ishi (daughter of Michinaga) – eventually Kampaku (Regent)
Fujiwara no Yorimichi prevents it.
Spring – King
Conrad II, "the Elder", assembles an army of thousands of armored
knights for an expedition into
Italy. He besieges
Pavia and marches to
Milan, where he is crowned with the
Iron Crown by Archbishop
Aribert as king of the
Lombards. Duke
William V ("the Great") of
Aquitaine, who is already en route for Italy, decides to renounce his claim to the Lombard throne and turns back.[23]
April – Conrad II punishes the citizens of Pavia with
starvation, with the help of Milanese troops, for burning down the Royal Palace. He appoints Aribert as his
viceroy ("imperial vicar") in Italy and charges him to ensure that the order is complied with.
Summer – Conrad II leaves the bulk of his army at the siege of Pavia, and marches to
Ravenna. The Ravennan militias close the town gates and assault the imperial train. Conrad rallies his troops and takes Ravenna, taking bloody revenge.
Autumn – Pavia falls to the imperial forces. Only the intervention of
Odilo of Cluny persuades Conrad to have mercy on the city and the defeated rebels.[25]
Rainulf Drengot, head of a mercenary band of
Norman knights, is approached by Duke
John V of Gaeta and is persuaded to change sides. With Norman help, Duke
Sergius IV recovers Naples from Capuan occupation.
^Based on dating of a felled tree using
dendrochronology based on a timeline using the
993–994 carbon-14 spike. Kuitems, Margot; Wallace, Birgitta L.; Lindsay, Charles; Scifo, Andrea; Doeve, Petra; Jenkins, Kevin; Lindauer, Susanne; Erdil, Pınar; Ledger, Paul M.; Forbes, Véronique; Vermeeren, Caroline (2021-10-20).
"Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021". Nature. 601 (7893): 388–391.
doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8.
ISSN1476-4687.
PMC8770119.
PMID34671168.
S2CID239051036. Our result of AD 1021 for the cutting year constitutes the only secure calendar date for the presence of Europeans across the Atlantic before the voyages of Columbus [in
1492]. Moreover, the fact that our results, on three different trees, converge on the same year is notable and unexpected. This coincidence strongly suggests Norse activity at L'Anse aux Meadows in AD 1021.
^Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South. London: Longman, pp. 26–28.
^Amatus, Dunbar & Loud (2004), p. 53. The young prince was sent to the papal court for safekeeping according to Amatus.
^Walker, Williston (1921). A History of the Christian Church. Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 218.
^Ortenberg. Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy. English Church and the Papacy, p. 49.
^Yaacov Lev, State and Society in Fatimid Egypt (Brill, 2022) p.36
^Samuel J. Johnson, Eclipses, Past and Future, With General Hints for Observing the Heavens (James Parker and Company, 1874) p.44
^Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p.50.
^Jonathan Riley-Smith (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume IV c.1024–c.1198. p. 72.
ISBN978-0-521-41411-1.
^Josis–Roland, Françoise (1970).
"La basilique Notre-Dame de Walcourt" [The basilica of Our Lady in Walcourt] (PDF). Bulletin de la Commission Royale des Monuments et des Sites (in French): 65.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^Lucy Margaret Smith (1920). The Early History of the Monastery of Cluny. Oxford University Press.
Hovhannes-Smbat III, King of the Armenian kingdom of
Ani, is attacked by his younger brother
Ashot IV, and loses much power to him, becoming concurrent king of outlying territories.
The Chinese capital city of
Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this year. Including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
Spring – Emperor
Henry II divides his army into three columns and descends through
Rome onto
Capua after the Lombard states of Southern Italy had switched their allegiance to the Byzantinians in the wake of the battle of Cannae four years earlier. The bulk of the expeditionary force (20,000 men) led by Henry, makes its way down the
Adriatic coast.
Pilgrim, archbishop of
Cologne, marches with his army down the
Tyrrhenian coast to lay
siege to Capua. The citizens open the gates and surrender the city to the imperial army.[6]
Pilgrim besieges the city of
Salerno for forty days. Prince
Guaimar III offers to give hostages – Pilgrim accepts the prince's son and co-prince
Guaimar IV, and lifts the siege.[7]
Summer – Outbreak of the
plague among the German troops forces Henry II to abandon his campaign in
Italy. He reimposes his suzerainty on the
Lombard principalities.
The 14-year-old
Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, with support of the
Zirid nobles, takes over the government and (as a minor) ascends to the throne in
Ifriqiya (modern
Tunisia).
Asia
The Chinese military has one million registered soldiers during the
Song Dynasty, an increase since the turn of the
11th century (approximate date).
February 12 – (18 Dhu-I-qa'da 413 AH) In Spain Al-Ma'mun al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammud returns to
Cordoba to become the new Emir, after the Emir Yaḥya ibn ʿAli ibn Ḥammud al-Muʿtali bi-llāh leaves the city and moves to
Malaga. Al-Qasim reigns for 10 months before being forced out by
Abd al-Rahman V.[13]
April 10 – Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Thu'ban becomes the new
Emir of Halab (in what is now northern Syria) after Safiyy al-Dawla is dismissed by the Caliph
al-Hakim.[17]
June 15 – (17th day before the kalends of July) The body of the late
Ælfheah of Canterbury, the former
Archbishop of Canterbury who will later be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint and a martyr of the church, is reburied at Canterbury Cathedral on orders of England's
King Canute, after being moved from St. Paul's Cathedral in London on June 12 (the 3rd day before the ides of June). King Canute, whose Danish troops had murdered Archbishop Ælfheah on April 19, 1012, during Canute's invasion of England, has ordered the reburial as an atonement for Ælfheah's death.[19][20]
April/May (Jian 3, 4th month) – An epidemic in
Kyoto (Japan) is so severe that there are corpses in the streets;[citation needed] disease spreads throughout the country.
60th birthday and longevity ceremony of Japanese matriarch Minamoto no Rinshi, wife of
Fujiwara no Michinaga.
January 21 – Chifuru, daughter of powerful Japanese court official
Fujiwara no Sanesuke (rival of
Fujiwara no Michinaga) has her mogi ceremony. Sanesuke wants to make his daughter an imperial consort which causes the dislike of Empress Ishi (daughter of Michinaga) – eventually Kampaku (Regent)
Fujiwara no Yorimichi prevents it.
Spring – King
Conrad II, "the Elder", assembles an army of thousands of armored
knights for an expedition into
Italy. He besieges
Pavia and marches to
Milan, where he is crowned with the
Iron Crown by Archbishop
Aribert as king of the
Lombards. Duke
William V ("the Great") of
Aquitaine, who is already en route for Italy, decides to renounce his claim to the Lombard throne and turns back.[23]
April – Conrad II punishes the citizens of Pavia with
starvation, with the help of Milanese troops, for burning down the Royal Palace. He appoints Aribert as his
viceroy ("imperial vicar") in Italy and charges him to ensure that the order is complied with.
Summer – Conrad II leaves the bulk of his army at the siege of Pavia, and marches to
Ravenna. The Ravennan militias close the town gates and assault the imperial train. Conrad rallies his troops and takes Ravenna, taking bloody revenge.
Autumn – Pavia falls to the imperial forces. Only the intervention of
Odilo of Cluny persuades Conrad to have mercy on the city and the defeated rebels.[25]
Rainulf Drengot, head of a mercenary band of
Norman knights, is approached by Duke
John V of Gaeta and is persuaded to change sides. With Norman help, Duke
Sergius IV recovers Naples from Capuan occupation.
^Based on dating of a felled tree using
dendrochronology based on a timeline using the
993–994 carbon-14 spike. Kuitems, Margot; Wallace, Birgitta L.; Lindsay, Charles; Scifo, Andrea; Doeve, Petra; Jenkins, Kevin; Lindauer, Susanne; Erdil, Pınar; Ledger, Paul M.; Forbes, Véronique; Vermeeren, Caroline (2021-10-20).
"Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021". Nature. 601 (7893): 388–391.
doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8.
ISSN1476-4687.
PMC8770119.
PMID34671168.
S2CID239051036. Our result of AD 1021 for the cutting year constitutes the only secure calendar date for the presence of Europeans across the Atlantic before the voyages of Columbus [in
1492]. Moreover, the fact that our results, on three different trees, converge on the same year is notable and unexpected. This coincidence strongly suggests Norse activity at L'Anse aux Meadows in AD 1021.
^Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South. London: Longman, pp. 26–28.
^Amatus, Dunbar & Loud (2004), p. 53. The young prince was sent to the papal court for safekeeping according to Amatus.
^Walker, Williston (1921). A History of the Christian Church. Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 218.
^Ortenberg. Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy. English Church and the Papacy, p. 49.
^Yaacov Lev, State and Society in Fatimid Egypt (Brill, 2022) p.36
^Samuel J. Johnson, Eclipses, Past and Future, With General Hints for Observing the Heavens (James Parker and Company, 1874) p.44
^Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p.50.
^Jonathan Riley-Smith (2004). The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume IV c.1024–c.1198. p. 72.
ISBN978-0-521-41411-1.
^Josis–Roland, Françoise (1970).
"La basilique Notre-Dame de Walcourt" [The basilica of Our Lady in Walcourt] (PDF). Bulletin de la Commission Royale des Monuments et des Sites (in French): 65.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^Lucy Margaret Smith (1920). The Early History of the Monastery of Cluny. Oxford University Press.