1016

1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 11th century, and the 7th year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1016, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Edmund II (left) is defeated by forces of Cnut the Great.

1016 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1016 MXVI
Ab urbe condita	1769
Armenian calendar	465 ԹՎ ՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5766
Balinese saka calendar	937–938
Bengali calendar	423
Berber calendar	1966
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1560
Burmese calendar	378
Byzantine calendar	6524–6525
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3712 or 3652     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3713 or 3653
Coptic calendar	732–733
Discordian calendar	2182
Ethiopian calendar	1008–1009
Hebrew calendar	4776–4777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1072–1073
- Shaka Samvat	937–938
- Kali Yuga	4116–4117
Holocene calendar	11016
Igbo calendar	16–17
Iranian calendar	394–395
Islamic calendar	406–407
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 5 (長和５年)
Javanese calendar	918–919
Julian calendar	1016 MXVI
Korean calendar	3349
Minguo calendar	896 before ROC 民前896年
Nanakshahi calendar	−452
Seleucid era	1327/1328 AG
Thai solar calendar	1558–1559
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 1142 or 761 or −11     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1143 or 762 or −10

Events

By place

Asia

• March 10 – Emperor Sanjō gives up the throne of Japan and soon afterwards is replaced by his cousin Emperor Go-Ichijō, aged about 8.
• Earthquakes partly destroy the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Europe

• March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson confirming his status as King of Norway.
• April 23 – Æthelred, King of England, dies, and is replaced by his son Edmund Ironside.^[1]
• c. May – Battle of Brentford (near London): King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut, Prince of Denmark.^[2]
• October 18 – Battle of Ashingdon: Cnut defeats Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only.^[1]
• November 30 – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.^[1]
• The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardegna, in particular Porto Torres and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Denia, Mujahid al-Amiri al-Muwaffaq.^[3]
• Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.^[4]
• Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.

Births

• July 26 – Duke Casimir I of Poland (Polish: Kazimierz I Odnowiciel)

Deaths

• April 23 – Ethelred the Unready, King of England
• November 30 – Edmund II, King of England
• Emperor Sanjō of Japan
• Badis ibn Mansur, third ruler of the Zirid dynasty in North Africa.