Year 1016 ( MXVI) was a

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of the

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Events

By place

Europe

March 25 Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions (in the Julian calendar). Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending th ...

– Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson, confirming his status as king of

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. *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. *599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in so ...

–

Æthelred the Unready Æthelred II (,Different spellings of this king's name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form . Compare the modern dialect word . ; ; 966 � ...

, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside". * Summer – Battle of Brentford (near

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): Edmund Ironside defeats the

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under King

Cnut Cnut ( ; ; – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rul ...

. * July 6 – Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of

Fulk III Fulk III, the Black ( 970–1040; ) was an early Count of Anjou celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. It is estimated Fulk constructed approximately 100 castles as well as abbeys throughout the Loire Valley in what ...

and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley. *

October 18 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation. * 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek phil ...

– Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of

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. * November 30 – Edmund II dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the

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. * The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of

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, in particular

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, and defeat the fleet of the

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king of

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, Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī. * Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held

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. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy. * Georgius Tzul, ruler of

Khazaria The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, an ...

, is captured by a combined

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–

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force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.

Arabian Empire

January 7 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of the Roman Republic, Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna ...

– Fath al-Qal'i, governor of the Citadel of Aleppo, revolts against Emir Mansur ibn Lu'lu', forcing him to flee. Fath accepts an agreement with Salih ibn Mirdas and takes control of

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Asia

March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...

– Emperor Sanjō of Japan abdicates the

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after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old cousin Go-Ichijō as the 68th emperor of Japan. Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed regent. * Japanese poet Koshikibu no Naishi (lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress Shōshi) and her husband Fujiwara no Kiminari (son of Michinaga) have a son, but the couple is not accepted because of the social gap between them..

Births

April 3 Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. * 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. * 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. ...

– Xing Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty (d. 1055) *

June 9 Events Pre-1600 * 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending the J ...

– Deokjong, ruler of

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(

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) (d. 1034) * July 25 – Casimir I the Restorer, duke of

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(d.

1058 Year 1058 ( MLVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * March 17 – King Lulach ("the Unfortunate") of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Malcolm III ( ...

) *

August 24 Events Pre-1600 * 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written ...

– Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress (d. 1039) *

October 28 Events Pre-1600 * 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. * 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor. * 312 – Constantine I defeat ...

– Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056) *

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, empress and

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China (d. 1079) * Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II of England (d. 1057) * Không Lộ, Vietnamese Zen master (approximate date) * Minamoto no Tsunenobu, Japanese

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(d. 1097) * Svein Knutsson, king of

(d.

1035 Year 1035 (Roman numerals, MXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * March 23 – Battle of Cesar (near the village of Cesar, Portugal): The armies of Bermudo III, King of Ki ...

) * Yan Vyshatich, Kievan nobleman (d. 1106)

Deaths

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, king of

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May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ...

–

Jovan Vladimir Jovan Vladimir or John Vladimir ( sr-cyr, Јован Владимир; – 22 May 1016) was the ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbs, Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war betwee ...

, Serbian prince (b. 990) * September 6 – Fujiwara no Bokushi, great-grandmother of the Emperor of Japan *

Ælfric of Hampshire Ælfric was Ealdorman of Hampshire from to 1016. Ælfric succeeded ealdorman Æthelmær to the county of Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bo ...

, English nobleman ** Eadnoth the Younger, bishop of Dorchester in England ** Ulfcytel Snillingr, English nobleman * November 30 – Edmund II "Ironside", king of England * Badis ibn Mansur, Muslim emir of the

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* Henry II "the Good", count of

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(b. 946) * Liu Chenggui, official of Song dynasty China (b. 951) *

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, Armenian

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monk * Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, caliph of Córdoba *

Uhtred the Bold Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold—sometimes Uchtred; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I, ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg), whose family, the Eadwulfingas, ...

, English nobleman * Wulfgar of Abingdon, English

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