1060

1060 (MLX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1060th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 60th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 11th century, and the 1st year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1060, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

King Béla I of Hungary (c. 1015–1063)

1060 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1060 MLX
Ab urbe condita	1813
Armenian calendar	509 ԹՎ ՇԹ
Assyrian calendar	5810
Balinese saka calendar	981–982
Bengali calendar	467
Berber calendar	2010
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1604
Burmese calendar	422
Byzantine calendar	6568–6569
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3756 or 3696     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3757 or 3697
Coptic calendar	776–777
Discordian calendar	2226
Ethiopian calendar	1052–1053
Hebrew calendar	4820–4821
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1116–1117
- Shaka Samvat	981–982
- Kali Yuga	4160–4161
Holocene calendar	11060
Igbo calendar	60–61
Iranian calendar	438–439
Islamic calendar	451–452
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 3 (康平３年)
Javanese calendar	963–964
Julian calendar	1060 MLX
Korean calendar	3393
Minguo calendar	852 before ROC 民前852年
Nanakshahi calendar	−408
Seleucid era	1371/1372 AG
Thai solar calendar	1602–1603
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1186 or 805 or 33     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1187 or 806 or 34

Events

• May – The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
• October – The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
• December 6 – Béla I the Champion is crowned king of Hungary.
• The New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
• Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
• Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
• Philip I of France begins his reign.
• Upon the death of Emund the Old, he is succeeded by his son-in-law Tek The Almighty as King of Sweden.

Births

Deaths

• August 4 – King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• November 14 – Count Geoffrey II of Anjou
• King Andrew I of Hungary (b. 1015)
• Emund the Old, king of Sweden since 1050
• Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet