1097

1097 (MXCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1097th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 97th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 11th century, and the 8th year of the 1090s decade. As of the start of 1097, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Map of Anatolia during the First Crusade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1060s  1070s  1080s  – 1090s –  1100s  1110s  1120s
Years:	1094 1095 1096 – 1097 – 1098 1099 1100

1097 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1097 MXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1850
Armenian calendar	546 ԹՎ ՇԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5847
Balinese saka calendar	1018–1019
Bengali calendar	504
Berber calendar	2047
English Regnal year	10 Will. 2 – 11 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1641
Burmese calendar	459
Byzantine calendar	6605–6606
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3793 or 3733     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3794 or 3734
Coptic calendar	813–814
Discordian calendar	2263
Ethiopian calendar	1089–1090
Hebrew calendar	4857–4858
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1153–1154
- Shaka Samvat	1018–1019
- Kali Yuga	4197–4198
Holocene calendar	11097
Igbo calendar	97–98
Iranian calendar	475–476
Islamic calendar	490–491
Japanese calendar	Eichō 2 / Jōtoku 1 (承徳元年)
Javanese calendar	1001–1002
Julian calendar	1097 MXCVII
Korean calendar	3430
Minguo calendar	815 before ROC 民前815年
Nanakshahi calendar	−371
Seleucid era	1408/1409 AG
Thai solar calendar	1639–1640
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1223 or 842 or 70     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1224 or 843 or 71

Events

• Edgar I deposes Donald III to become king of Scotland.
• The First Crusade reaches Constantinople.
• Crusaders besiege Nicaea, win the Battle of Dorylaeum, and capture Latakia from the Seljuk Turks, and begin the siege of Antioch.