1059

1059 (MLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1059th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 59th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 11th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1059, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Duke Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085)

1059 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1059 MLIX
Ab urbe condita	1812
Armenian calendar	508 ԹՎ ՇԸ
Assyrian calendar	5809
Balinese saka calendar	980–981
Bengali calendar	466
Berber calendar	2009
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1603
Burmese calendar	421
Byzantine calendar	6567–6568
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3755 or 3695     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3756 or 3696
Coptic calendar	775–776
Discordian calendar	2225
Ethiopian calendar	1051–1052
Hebrew calendar	4819–4820
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1115–1116
- Shaka Samvat	980–981
- Kali Yuga	4159–4160
Holocene calendar	11059
Igbo calendar	59–60
Iranian calendar	437–438
Islamic calendar	450–451
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 2 (康平２年)
Javanese calendar	962–963
Julian calendar	1059 MLIX
Korean calendar	3392
Minguo calendar	853 before ROC 民前853年
Nanakshahi calendar	−409
Seleucid era	1370/1371 AG
Thai solar calendar	1601–1602
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 1185 or 804 or 32     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1186 or 805 or 33

Events

• January 24 – Pope Nicholas II takes over for Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope. He was placed in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
• August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.
• Anselm settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.
• The Lateran Council makes the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the election of popes.
• Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan, becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• Peter Krešimir IV is crowned King of Croatia and Dalmatia
• Isaac I Comnenus resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his replacement.

Births

• Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler historian of the First Crusade

Deaths

• August 30 – Peter Urseolo of Hungary
• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople