1064

1064 (MLXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1064th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 64th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 11th century, and the 5th year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1064, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Yi Yuanji, the great master of simian painting, is invited to the imperial court, but dies soon after.

1064 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1064 MLXIV
Ab urbe condita	1817
Armenian calendar	513 ԹՎ ՇԺԳ
Assyrian calendar	5814
Balinese saka calendar	985–986
Bengali calendar	471
Berber calendar	2014
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1608
Burmese calendar	426
Byzantine calendar	6572–6573
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3760 or 3700     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3761 or 3701
Coptic calendar	780–781
Discordian calendar	2230
Ethiopian calendar	1056–1057
Hebrew calendar	4824–4825
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1120–1121
- Shaka Samvat	985–986
- Kali Yuga	4164–4165
Holocene calendar	11064
Igbo calendar	64–65
Iranian calendar	442–443
Islamic calendar	456–457
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 7 (康平７年)
Javanese calendar	967–968
Julian calendar	1064 MLXIV
Korean calendar	3397
Minguo calendar	848 before ROC 民前848年
Nanakshahi calendar	−404
Seleucid era	1375/1376 AG
Thai solar calendar	1606–1607
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1190 or 809 or 37     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1191 or 810 or 38

Events

By area

Americas

• Sunset Crater Volcano (present-day Arizona) first erupts.

Asia

• The Seljuk Turks storm Anatolia, taking Caesarea and Ani, marking the beginning of Turkish invasions into Anatolia.

Europe

• June 9 – Coimbra is taken by King Ferdinand of Castile.
• European warriors go to Spain to participate to the siege of Barbastro. This expedition is approved by the Pope and is now regarded as an early form of Crusade.^[1]
• Harold II is shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.
• Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Births

• Borivoj II of Bohemia, a Duke of Bohemia
• Robert Fitz Richard, a Norman landowner in England
• Niels of Denmark, a King of Denmark

Deaths

• Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa`id Ibn Hazm
• Ottokar I of Styria
• Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar
• Yi Yuanji – Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his realistic paintings of animals (b. 1000)