1041

Year 1041 (MXLI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

1041 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1041 MXLI
Ab urbe condita	1794
Armenian calendar	490 ԹՎ ՆՂ
Assyrian calendar	5791
Balinese saka calendar	962–963
Bengali calendar	447–448
Berber calendar	1991
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1585
Burmese calendar	403
Byzantine calendar	6549–6550
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3738 or 3531     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3739 or 3532
Coptic calendar	757–758
Discordian calendar	2207
Ethiopian calendar	1033–1034
Hebrew calendar	4801–4802
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1097–1098
- Shaka Samvat	962–963
- Kali Yuga	4141–4142
Holocene calendar	11041
Igbo calendar	41–42
Iranian calendar	419–420
Islamic calendar	432–433
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 2 (長久２年)
Javanese calendar	944–945
Julian calendar	1041 MXLI
Korean calendar	3374
Minguo calendar	871 before ROC 民前871年
Nanakshahi calendar	−427
Seleucid era	1352/1353 AG
Thai solar calendar	1583–1584
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 1167 or 786 or 14     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1168 or 787 or 15

Michael V Kalaphates (c. 1015–1042)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• December 10 – Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian dies after a 6-year reign. His wife, Empress Zoë, elevates (on the advice of her lover John the Orphanotrophos) her adoptive son to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, as Michael V Kalaphates. Shortly after, Michael comes into conflict with his uncle John, and banishes him to a monastery.

Europe

• March 17 – Battle of Olivento: Norman troops and their Lombard allies, led by William Iron Arm, are victorious against the Byzantines at the feet of the Monte Vulture, near the River Olivento in Apulia.
• May 4 – Battle of Montemaggiore: Lombard-Norman rebel forces, led by William, are again victorious, and defeat a Byzantine army (18,000 men) on the hill of Montemaggiore, near the River Ofanto.
• September 3 – Battle of Montepeloso: Lombard-Norman rebel forces, led by William, defeat the Byzantines at Montepeloso. During the battle, Boioannes, governor of the Catepanate of Italy, is captured.
• Winter – Battle of Ostrovo: The Byzantines, with the help of the Varangian Guard, led by Harald Hardrada (future king of Norway), defeat the Bulgarian troops, near Lake Ostrovo in Greece.

England

• King Harthacnut invites his half-brother Edward the Confessor to return to England from exile in Normandy as his heir as king of England,^[1] with the support of Godwin, Earl of Wessex.^[2]
• The city of Worcester rebels against the naval taxes of Harthacnut. He reduces the navy from 60 to 32 ships.

Africa

• The Zirid dynasty rejects Shi'ite obedience and Fatimid domination, and recognizes the Abbasids as their overlords.^[3]

Asia

• At about this time, the number of enlisted soldiers in the Song dynasty Chinese military reaches well over 1,250,000 troops, an increase since 1022, when there were a million soldiers.

Births

• Ōe no Masafusa, Japanese poet (d. 1111)
• Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (Raymond of Saint-Gilles), French nobleman (d. 1105) (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 4 – Fujiwara no Kintō, Japanese poet (b. 966)
• December 10 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)
• Adolf II of Lotharingia, German nobleman (b. 1002)
• Akazome Emon, Japanese waka poet (approximate date)
• Eadwulf IV of Bamburgh, Northumbrian ruler
• Edmund of Durham (or Eadmund), English bishop
• Gangeyadeva, Indian ruler of the Kalachuris of Tripuri
• Mac Beathaidh mac Ainmire, Irish poet and Chief Ollam
• Muhammad of Ghazni, sultan of the Ghaznavids (b. 998)
• Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar, Buyid emir
• Peter Delyan, Bulgarian rebel leader and ruler (tsar)
• Sampiro, Spanish bishop, politician and intellectual
• Tancred of Hauteville, Norman nobleman (b. 980)
• Vikramabahu, Prince of Ruhuna (or Kassapa), ruler of Sri Lanka (b. 1017)