1013

1013 (MXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 11th century, and the 4th year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1013, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

King Sweyn Forkbeard (960–1014)

1013 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1013 MXIII
Ab urbe condita	1766
Armenian calendar	462 ԹՎ ՆԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	5763
Balinese saka calendar	934–935
Bengali calendar	420
Berber calendar	1963
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1557
Burmese calendar	375
Byzantine calendar	6521–6522
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3709 or 3649     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3710 or 3650
Coptic calendar	729–730
Discordian calendar	2179
Ethiopian calendar	1005–1006
Hebrew calendar	4773–4774
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1069–1070
- Shaka Samvat	934–935
- Kali Yuga	4113–4114
Holocene calendar	11013
Igbo calendar	13–14
Iranian calendar	391–392
Islamic calendar	403–404
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 2 (長和２年)
Javanese calendar	915–916
Julian calendar	1013 MXIII
Korean calendar	3346
Minguo calendar	899 before ROC 民前899年
Nanakshahi calendar	−455
Seleucid era	1324/1325 AG
Thai solar calendar	1555–1556
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1139 or 758 or −14     — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1140 or 759 or −13

Events

By place

Europe

• July – Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, having invaded England, is declared King within the Danelaw.^[1]
• December 25 – Sweyn is declared King of England in London, forcing Æthelred the Unready to flee to Normandy.^[1][2]
• Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a peace treaty at Merseburg with Duke Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland who recognizes him as overlord.
• Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, gathers an army at Augsburg to begin his second Italian military campaign.
• The Jews are thrown out of the caliphate of Córdoba.
• The Poles leave from Pomerania (approximate date).

Asia

• Estimation: Kaifeng, capital of China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Córdoba in Al-Andalus.^[3]
• The largest of the Four Great Books of Song, the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau (which had been compiled since 1005), is completed in 1,000 volumes of 9.4 million written Chinese characters.

By topic

Religion

• Lyfing is appointed by Æthelred the Unready as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• The Al-Hakim Mosque is completed in Cairo.
• Beauvais changes from a county to a bishopric (approximate date).

Births

• Sancha of León, wife of Ferdinand I of León
• Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (Rif),Moroccan Talmudist and posek(d. 1103)

Deaths

• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, scholar of medicine
• Antipope John XVI