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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century - 11th century - 12th century |
| Decades: | 1040s 1050s 1060s - 1070s - 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1076 1077 1078 - 1079 - 1080 1081 1082 |
| 1079 by topic | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1079 MLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1832 |
| Armenian calendar | 528 ԹՎ ՇԻԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -765 – -764 |
| Berber calendar | 2029 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1623 |
| Burmese calendar | 441 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6587 – 6588 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年十一月廿六日 (3715/3775-11-26) — to —
己未年十二月初六日(3716/3776-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 795 – 796 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1071 – 1072 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4839 – 4840 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1134 – 1135 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1001 – 1002 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4180 – 4181 |
| Holocene calendar | 11079 |
| Iranian calendar | 457 – 458 |
| Islamic calendar | 471 – 472 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3412 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1622 |
Events
- Persian astronomer, Omar Khayyám, computed the length of the year as 365.24219858156 days which has been the most accurate calculation of old times. Khayyam also, in Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produced a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions.
- Murder of Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów (pol. Stanisław ze Szczepanowa) by Polish King Bolesław II the Bold
- Halsten and Ingold I succeed Haakon the Red in Sweden.
- Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
- William I of England establishes the New Forest.
- Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos.
- Abbess Hildegard of Bingen makes the first surviving reference to the use of hops in brewing. (or 1067? — Hildegard of Bingen/Rupertsberg lived 1098–1179. The reference attributed to her cannot be 1067.)
Births
- August 8 — Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher (d. 1142)
Deaths
- April 11 — Stanislaus of Szczepanów, bishop of Kraków
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