1051

1051 (MLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1051st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 51st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1051, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Henry I of France marries Anna of Kiev.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1048 1049 1050 – 1051 – 1052 1053 1054

1051 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1051 MLI
Ab urbe condita	1804
Armenian calendar	500 ԹՎ Շ
Assyrian calendar	5801
Balinese saka calendar	972–973
Bengali calendar	458
Berber calendar	2001
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1595
Burmese calendar	413
Byzantine calendar	6559–6560
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3747 or 3687     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3748 or 3688
Coptic calendar	767–768
Discordian calendar	2217
Ethiopian calendar	1043–1044
Hebrew calendar	4811–4812
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1107–1108
- Shaka Samvat	972–973
- Kali Yuga	4151–4152
Holocene calendar	11051
Igbo calendar	51–52
Iranian calendar	429–430
Islamic calendar	442–443
Japanese calendar	Eishō 6 (永承６年)
Javanese calendar	954–955
Julian calendar	1051 MLI
Korean calendar	3384
Minguo calendar	861 before ROC 民前861年
Nanakshahi calendar	−417
Seleucid era	1362/1363 AG
Thai solar calendar	1593–1594
Tibetan calendar	阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1177 or 796 or 24     — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1178 or 797 or 25

Events

• Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is forced to leave England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover. He returns the following year.
• Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.
• May 19 – Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.
• William of Normandy fights for his life and crown in Normandy.
• Heregeld is ended by King Edward the Confessor of England.

Births

• Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England, 1066, after the Battle of Hastings
• Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths

• January 22 – Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
• Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing