1070

1070 (MLXX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1070th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 70th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 11th century, and the 1st year of the 1070s decade. As of the start of 1070, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1067 1068 1069 – 1070 – 1071 1072 1073

1070 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1070 MLXX
Ab urbe condita	1823
Armenian calendar	519 ԹՎ ՇԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	5820
Balinese saka calendar	991–992
Bengali calendar	477
Berber calendar	2020
English Regnal year	4 Will. 1 – 5 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1614
Burmese calendar	432
Byzantine calendar	6578–6579
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3766 or 3706     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3767 or 3707
Coptic calendar	786–787
Discordian calendar	2236
Ethiopian calendar	1062–1063
Hebrew calendar	4830–4831
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1126–1127
- Shaka Samvat	991–992
- Kali Yuga	4170–4171
Holocene calendar	11070
Igbo calendar	70–71
Iranian calendar	448–449
Islamic calendar	462–463
Japanese calendar	Enkyū 2 (延久２年)
Javanese calendar	974–975
Julian calendar	1070 MLXX
Korean calendar	3403
Minguo calendar	842 before ROC 民前842年
Nanakshahi calendar	−398
Seleucid era	1381/1382 AG
Thai solar calendar	1612–1613
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1196 or 815 or 43     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1197 or 816 or 44

Events

• Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.
• Lanfranc, an Italian lawyer, becomes William's formidable Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Central Asian poet Yusuf Balasagun completes the Kutadgu Bilig.
• Bergen, Norway is founded by the king Olav Kyrre. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until it is replaced by Oslo in 1314.
• Abu Bakr Ibn-Umar founds Marrakesh.
• Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi starts the Xining Reforms (which last until 1085).
• The Temple of Literature is established in the capital of Vietnam.
• A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuk Turks across the Euphrates.
• Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.

Deaths

• Baldwin VI of Flanders (b. 1030)