1011

1011 (MXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1011, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Sanjō of Japan (976–1017)

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1008 1009 1010 – 1011 – 1012 1013 1014

1011 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1011 MXI
Ab urbe condita	1764
Armenian calendar	460 ԹՎ ՆԿ
Assyrian calendar	5761
Balinese saka calendar	932–933
Bengali calendar	418
Berber calendar	1961
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1555
Burmese calendar	373
Byzantine calendar	6519–6520
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3707 or 3647     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3708 or 3648
Coptic calendar	727–728
Discordian calendar	2177
Ethiopian calendar	1003–1004
Hebrew calendar	4771–4772
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1067–1068
- Shaka Samvat	932–933
- Kali Yuga	4111–4112
Holocene calendar	11011
Igbo calendar	11–12
Iranian calendar	389–390
Islamic calendar	401–402
Japanese calendar	Kankō 8 (寛弘８年)
Javanese calendar	913–914
Julian calendar	1011 MXI
Korean calendar	3344
Minguo calendar	901 before ROC 民前901年
Nanakshahi calendar	−457
Seleucid era	1322/1323 AG
Thai solar calendar	1553–1554
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1137 or 756 or −16     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1138 or 757 or −15

Events

By place

Europe

• June 11 – the Byzantine army takes Bari from the rebellious Lombard lord Melus.^[1]
• Danes capture Canterbury, taking Alphege, the Archbishop of Canterbury as a prisoner.^[2]
• Byrhtferth of Ramsey writes his Manual, on the subject of time.^[2]
• The German king Henry II gives Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia the Carinthian duchy, including the rule over the March of Verona (or in 1012).
• Ermengol II succeeds Ermengol I as Count of Urgell
• Albert II, Count of Namur succeeds Albert I

Middle East

• Baghdad Manifesto: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah's fall from Ali ibn Abi Talib is disputed.
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), a famous Persian scientist working in Egypt, pretends to be crazy. He is kept under house arrest until 1021. During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.
• In Georgia, Bagrat III takes away Sumbat III of Klarjeti power.

Eastern Asia

• The Chinese Guangyun rime dictionary is compiled under Emperor Zhenzong of Song.
• Emperor Sanjō gets the throne of Japan.

Births

• Eleanor of Normandy, a Norman noblewoman and the daughter of Richard II of Normandy (possible date; d. after 1071)
• Ralph the Staller, earl of East Anglia (d. 1068)
• Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1076)
• Shao Yong, Song Dynasty philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian (d. 1077)

Deaths

• February 23 – Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz and a statesman of the Holy Roman Empire (b. c. 940)
• November 21 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (b. 950)
• December 12 or December 15 – Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia (b. c. 975)
• Emperor Ichijō of Japan (b. 980)
• Albert I, Count of Namur (b. c. 950)
• Armentarius, Galician bishop (b. 983)
• Sumbat III of Klarjeti, Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the last sovereign of Klarjeti^[3]
• Yohannan V, Patriarch of the Church of the East

References

1. Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South 1016-1130. London: Longmans.
2. Palmer, Alan Warwick; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
3. Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 498. Georgetown University Press.