1017

1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 11th century, and the 8th year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1017, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1017 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1017 MXVII
Ab urbe condita	1770
Armenian calendar	466 ԹՎ ՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	5767
Balinese saka calendar	938–939
Bengali calendar	424
Berber calendar	1967
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1561
Burmese calendar	379
Byzantine calendar	6525–6526
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3713 or 3653     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3714 or 3654
Coptic calendar	733–734
Discordian calendar	2183
Ethiopian calendar	1009–1010
Hebrew calendar	4777–4778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1073–1074
- Shaka Samvat	938–939
- Kali Yuga	4117–4118
Holocene calendar	11017
Igbo calendar	17–18
Iranian calendar	395–396
Islamic calendar	407–408
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 6 / Kannin 1 (寛仁元年)
Javanese calendar	919–920
Julian calendar	1017 MXVII
Korean calendar	3350
Minguo calendar	895 before ROC 民前895年
Nanakshahi calendar	−451
Seleucid era	1328/1329 AG
Thai solar calendar	1559–1560
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1143 or 762 or −10     — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1144 or 763 or −9

Events

By place

Europe

• c. May – Melus of Bari begins a rebellion, supported by Norman mercenaries. His forces are victorious in three battles against the Byzantine Empire.
• c. July – Cnut the Great, King of England, marries Emma of Normandy, widow of the monarch known as Æthelred.^[1]
• Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.^[1]
• Kiev burns. Possible date at which construction of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, is started.

Asia

• Abd-ar-Rahman IV replaces Suleiman II as Umayyad caliph.
• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion. During the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Africa

• Sunni revolt of Kairouan against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken, robbed and destroyed.^[2]

Births

• October 29 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher in Song Dynasty China (d. 1073)

Deaths

• July 6 – Genshin, Japanese schoolar (b. 942)
• Abd-ar-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph
• Eadric Streona, Earldorman of Mercia
• Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (b. 965)
• Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona, (b. 972)