1052

Year 1052 (MLII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

1052 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1052 MLII
Ab urbe condita	1805
Armenian calendar	501 ԹՎ ՇԱ
Assyrian calendar	5802
Balinese saka calendar	973–974
Bengali calendar	458–459
Berber calendar	2002
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1596
Burmese calendar	414
Byzantine calendar	6560–6561
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3749 or 3542     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3750 or 3543
Coptic calendar	768–769
Discordian calendar	2218
Ethiopian calendar	1044–1045
Hebrew calendar	4812–4813
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1108–1109
- Shaka Samvat	973–974
- Kali Yuga	4152–4153
Holocene calendar	11052
Igbo calendar	52–53
Iranian calendar	430–431
Islamic calendar	443–444
Japanese calendar	Eishō 7 (永承７年)
Javanese calendar	955–956
Julian calendar	1052 MLII
Korean calendar	3385
Minguo calendar	860 before ROC 民前860年
Nanakshahi calendar	−416
Seleucid era	1363/1364 AG
Thai solar calendar	1594–1595
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1178 or 797 or 25     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1179 or 798 or 26

Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (left), receives her Encomium (British Library).

Events

By place

England

• Summer – Godwin, Earl of Wessex, sails with a large fleet up the Thames to London, forcing King Edward the Confessor to reinstate him into his previous position of power.

Africa

• Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• Byōdō-in, a Japanese Buddhist temple (located in the Kyoto Prefecture), changes its name by order of Fujiwara no Yorimichi.

Births

• May 23 – Philip I ("the Amorous"), king of France (d. 1108)
• September/October – Conrad II ("the Child"), duke of Bavaria (d. 1055)
• Agnes of Aquitaine, countess of Savoy (approximate date)
• Dirk V, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie) (d. 1091)
• Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England (d. c. 1126) (approximate date)
• Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)
• Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop and saint (d. 1121)
• Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 6 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England (twice), Denmark and Norway (b. 984)
• May 6 – Boniface III, Italian prince and margrave (assassinated)
• June 2/4 – assassinations
  • Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman
  • Pandulf III of Salerno, Lombard prince
  • Pandulf of Capaccio, Lombard nobleman
• June 19 – Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty (b. 989)
• October 4 – Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1020)
• October 27 – Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir^[2]
• December 14 – Aaron Scotus, Irish abbot and musician
• Amadeus I, count of Savoy (approximate date)
• Halinard, French archbishop (approximate date)
• Hugh II, count of Ponthieu (also lord of Abbeville)
• Rodulf, Norman missionary bishop and abbot
• Sweyn Godwinson (or Swein), English nobleman
• Xu Daoning, Chinese painter (approximate date)
• Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk