1029

Year 1029 (MXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

1029 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1029 MXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1782
Armenian calendar	478 ԹՎ ՆՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5779
Balinese saka calendar	950–951
Bengali calendar	435–436
Berber calendar	1979
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1573
Burmese calendar	391
Byzantine calendar	6537–6538
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3726 or 3519     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3727 or 3520
Coptic calendar	745–746
Discordian calendar	2195
Ethiopian calendar	1021–1022
Hebrew calendar	4789–4790
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1085–1086
- Shaka Samvat	950–951
- Kali Yuga	4129–4130
Holocene calendar	11029
Igbo calendar	29–30
Iranian calendar	407–408
Islamic calendar	419–420
Japanese calendar	Chōgen 2 (長元２年)
Javanese calendar	931–932
Julian calendar	1029 MXXIX
Korean calendar	3362
Minguo calendar	883 before ROC 民前883年
Nanakshahi calendar	−439
Seleucid era	1340/1341 AG
Thai solar calendar	1571–1572
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1155 or 774 or 2     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1156 or 775 or 3

Naumburger Dom (St. Peter and St. Paul)

Events

By place

Asia

• March/April: The Ghaznavid Sultan Maḥmūd sacks brutally the city of Rayy after having received a request for help by its Buyyid ruler Majd al-Dawla for help against his rebellious troops. He crucifies a large number of the local population and burns many books that he considers heretical.^[1][2]

Europe

• Prince Pandulf IV of Capua becomes the de facto ruler of southern Italy – holding Capua and Naples himself – this in support with his powerful allies Amalfi, Salerno and Benevento. Only the Duchy of Gaeta remains out of his grasp.
• Rainulf Drengot, head of a mercenary band of Norman knights, is approached by Duke John V of Gaeta and is persuaded to change sides. With Norman help, Duke Sergius IV recovers Naples from Capuan occupation.
• Duke Bretislav I (Bohemian Achilles) of Bohemia of the Přemyslid Dynasty reconquers Moravia from Poland (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• The seat of the Bishopric of Zeitz is moved to Naumburg (Saxony-Anhalt) in Central Germany.

Births

• January 20 – Alp Arslan (Heroic Lion), sultan of the Seljuk Empire (d. 1072)
• July 5 – Al-Mustansir Billah, caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (d. 1094)
• Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Arab astrologer and astronomer (d. 1087)
• Al-Humaydī, Andalusian scholar and writer of Islamic studies (d. 1095)
• Clement III, antipope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
• Kaoruko (or Saien-no Kogo), Japanese empress consort (d. 1093)
• Said al-Andalusi, Moorish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1070)
• Ulrich of Zell (or Wulderic), German abbot and saint (d. 1093)

Deaths

• January 20 – Heonae, Korean queen consort and regent (b. 964)
• January 27 – Unwan (or Unwin), archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
• May 28 – Herman of Ename, count of Verdun (Lower Lorraine)
• Abu'l-Qasim Jafar, Buyid statesman and vizier (Fasanjas family)
• Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician and engineer (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Kinsue, Japanese statesman and courtier (b. 957)
• Fujiwara no Tametoki, Japanese nobleman (approximate date)
• Haakon Ericsson, Norwegian Viking nobleman (approximate date)
• Ibn al-Kattani, Moorish astrologer, poet and physician (b. 951)
• Kushyar Gilani, Persian mathematician and geographer (b. 971)
• Lu Zongdao, Chinese official and politician (approximate date)
• Salih ibn Mirdas, Arab founder of the Mirdasid Dynasty^[3]