1083

Year 1083 (MLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s 1100s
Years:	1080 1081 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086

1083 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1083 MLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1836
Armenian calendar	532 ԹՎ ՇԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5833
Balinese saka calendar	1004–1005
Bengali calendar	490
Berber calendar	2033
English Regnal year	17 Will. 1 – 18 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1627
Burmese calendar	445
Byzantine calendar	6591–6592
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3780 or 3573     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3781 or 3574
Coptic calendar	799–800
Discordian calendar	2249
Ethiopian calendar	1075–1076
Hebrew calendar	4843–4844
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1139–1140
- Shaka Samvat	1004–1005
- Kali Yuga	4183–4184
Holocene calendar	11083
Igbo calendar	83–84
Iranian calendar	461–462
Islamic calendar	475–476
Japanese calendar	Eihō 3 (永保３年)
Javanese calendar	987–988
Julian calendar	1083 MLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3416
Minguo calendar	829 before ROC 民前829年
Nanakshahi calendar	−385
Seleucid era	1394/1395 AG
Thai solar calendar	1625–1626
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1209 or 828 or 56     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1210 or 829 or 57

Alfonso VI of León and Castile (r. 1077–1109)

Events

By place

Europe

• January 6 – A Castilian army, under Count Gonzalo Salvadórez and his son-in-law Ramiro Garcés, Lord of Calahorra, child of the late King García Sánchez III of Pamplona, enters the surrendered bastion of Rueda, but are then treacherously set upon and killed. Gonzalo, Ramiro, and Ramiro's illegitimate half-brother Sancho Garcés are among the many nobles to lose their lives, in what will be remembered as the 'disaster' or 'treachery of Rueda'.^[1]
• Summer – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor besieges Pope Gregory VII in Castel Sant'Angelo at Rome.
• October – While Robert Guiscard is in Italy, emperor Alexios I Komnenos retakes territory previously lost to the Normans, including the town of Kastoria. Several Normans, including Peter Aliphas, switch sides to the Byzantines.^[2][3]
• Reconquista: Castilian forces under Alfonso VI reconquer Talavera de la Reina in the Taifa of Toledo (modern Spain).
• King Sancho Ramírez of Pamplona and Aragon, conquers Graus (located in the Pyrenees).
• King William the Conqueror imprisons his half-brother Odo of Bayeux for planning a military expedition to Italy.

Africa

• Ceuta falls to the Almoravids, after a five-year siege.^[4]

Births

• December 1 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess (d. 1153)
• Florine of Burgundy, French noblewoman and crusader (d. 1097)
• Li Gang, Chinese politician and Grand Chancellor (d. 1140)
• Qadi Iyad, Almoravid imam and chief judge (qadi) (d. 1149)
• Raymond du Puy, French knight and Grand Master (d. 1160)
• Shin Panthagu, Burmese Buddhist monk and primate (d. 1174)
• Viacheslav I Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1154)
• Approximate date
  • Jindřich Zdík (or Henry Zdík), bishop of Olomouc (d. 1150)
  • Otto IV, count palatine of Bavaria (approximate date)

Deaths

• January 6
  • Gonzalo Salvadórez, Spanish nobleman
  • Ramiro Garcés, Spanish nobleman
  • Sancho Garcés, Spanish nobleman
• January 11 – Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria
• September 2 – Munjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler (b. 1019)
• November 2 – Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England
• December 5 – Sunjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler (b. 1047)
• Adelelm of Jumièges, Norman monk and abbot
• Basil Apokapes (or Apocapes), Byzantine general
• Ermengarde of Tonnerre, French noblewoman
• Nicodemus of Palermo, Italian bishop and saint
• Touzi Yiqing, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1032)
• Zeng Gong, Chinese scholar and historian (b. 1019)
• Approximate date – Theodora Doukaina Selvo, Venetian dogaressa (b. 1058)

References

1. Martínez Diez, Gonzalo (2007). El Cid histórico (in Spanish), p. 137. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. ISBN 978-84-08-07165-5.
2. Venning, Timothy; Harris, Jonathan (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Springer. p. 416. ISBN 9780230505865.
3. Venning, Timothy; Frankopan, Peter (2015). A Chronology of the Crusades. Routledge. ISBN 9781317496434.
4. Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.