1037

Year 1037 (MXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

1037 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1037 MXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1790
Armenian calendar	486 ԹՎ ՆՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	5787
Balinese saka calendar	958–959
Bengali calendar	443–444
Berber calendar	1987
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1581
Burmese calendar	399
Byzantine calendar	6545–6546
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3734 or 3527     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3735 or 3528
Coptic calendar	753–754
Discordian calendar	2203
Ethiopian calendar	1029–1030
Hebrew calendar	4797–4798
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1093–1094
- Shaka Samvat	958–959
- Kali Yuga	4137–4138
Holocene calendar	11037
Igbo calendar	37–38
Iranian calendar	415–416
Islamic calendar	428–429
Japanese calendar	Chōgen 10 / Chōryaku 1 (長暦元年)
Javanese calendar	940–941
Julian calendar	1037 MXXXVII
Korean calendar	3370
Minguo calendar	875 before ROC 民前875年
Nanakshahi calendar	−431
Seleucid era	1348/1349 AG
Thai solar calendar	1579–1580
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1163 or 782 or 10     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 1164 or 783 or 11

Ferdinand I (the Great) (c. 1015–1065)

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – A revolt in northern Italy is started by Archbishop Aribert of Milan. King Henry III (eldest son of Emperor Conrad II) travels south of the Alps to quell it.
• February – At an Imperial Diet in Pavia (assembled by Conrad II), Aribert is accused of fomenting a revolt against the Holy Roman Empire, Conrad orders his arrest.
• May – Conrad II, with Pavian assistance, lays siege to Milan at the Porta Romana side, but the city holds out. In Rome, Pope Benedict IX deposes Aribert as archbishop.
• May 28 – Conrad II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) in Lombardia (modern Italy).
• Summer – A Byzantine expeditionary force under George Maniakes lands at Sicily, and defeats the Zirids. Maniakes begins his campaign to reconquer the island.
• September 4 – Battle of Tamarón: Ferdinand I defeats and kills his brother-in-law Bermudo III. Ferdinand becomes the king of Castile and León (modern Spain).^[1]
• November 15 – Battle of Bar-le-Duc: Odo II, Count of Blois and Champagne, while invading the Duchy of Lorraine dies in battle with forces loyal to Gothelo I.

England

• King Harold I seizes the throne of England from his half-brother Harthacnut. His mother, Emma of Normandy, flees to Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium).^[2]

Asia

• The Chinese rime dictionary of the Jiyun is published during the Song Dynasty.

• The Great Seljuk Empire is established by Tugrul Bey.

Births

• January 8 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher (d. 1101)
• Beatrice I, German abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1061)
• Hawise, duchess of Brittany (approximate date)

Deaths

• September 4 – Bermudo III (or Vermudo), king of León
• November 15 – Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983)
• Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami, Persian poet
• Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Persian Shafi'i scholar
• Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, Persian Sufi mystic (b. 948)
• Avicenna, Persian physician and polymath (b. 980)
• Boleslaus III (the Red), duke of Bohemia
• Ding Wei, grand chancellor of the Song Dynasty
• Farrukhi Sistani, Persian poet (or 1038)
• John of Debar, Bulgarian clergyman and bishop
• Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Persian mathematician
• Muirgeas ua Cú Ceanainn, king of Uí Díarmata
• Robert II, French prelate and archbishop
• Siegfried II, German nobleman (b. 956)
• William III (Taillefer), French nobleman