1041

1041 (MXLI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1041st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 41st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1040s decade. As of the start of 1041, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Michael V Kalaphates (c. 1015–1042)

1041 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1041 MXLI
Ab urbe condita	1794
Armenian calendar	490 ԹՎ ՆՂ
Assyrian calendar	5791
Balinese saka calendar	962–963
Bengali calendar	448
Berber calendar	1991
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1585
Burmese calendar	403
Byzantine calendar	6549–6550
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3737 or 3677     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3738 or 3678
Coptic calendar	757–758
Discordian calendar	2207
Ethiopian calendar	1033–1034
Hebrew calendar	4801–4802
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1097–1098
- Shaka Samvat	962–963
- Kali Yuga	4141–4142
Holocene calendar	11041
Igbo calendar	41–42
Iranian calendar	419–420
Islamic calendar	432–433
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 2 (長久２年)
Javanese calendar	944–945
Julian calendar	1041 MXLI
Korean calendar	3374
Minguo calendar	871 before ROC 民前871年
Nanakshahi calendar	−427
Seleucid era	1352/1353 AG
Thai solar calendar	1583–1584
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 1167 or 786 or 14     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1168 or 787 or 15

Events

By place

Africa

• The Zirid dynasty turns down Shi'ite obedience and Fatimid rule and recognizes the Abbasids as their overlords.^[1]

Europe

• December 10 – Empress Zoe of Byzantium raises her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
• Worcester rebels against the naval taxes of Harthacanute.
• Edward the Confessor returns from exile to inherit Harthacanute. He reduces the Navy from 60 to 32 ships this year due to the tax burden.

Asia

• The number of enlisted soldiers in the Song Dynasty Chinese military reaches well over 1,250,000 troops, an increase since 1022 when there were a million soldiers.

Deaths

• December 10 – Michael IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)