1050

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s 1070s
Years:	1047 1048 1049 1050 1051 1052 1053
	v t e

1050 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1050 ML
Ab urbe condita	1803
Armenian calendar	499 ԹՎ ՆՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	5800
Balinese saka calendar	971–972
Bengali calendar	456–457
Berber calendar	2000
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1594
Burmese calendar	412
Byzantine calendar	6558–6559
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3747 or 3540     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3748 or 3541
Coptic calendar	766–767
Discordian calendar	2216
Ethiopian calendar	1042–1043
Hebrew calendar	4810–4811
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1106–1107
- Shaka Samvat	971–972
- Kali Yuga	4150–4151
Holocene calendar	11050
Igbo calendar	50–51
Iranian calendar	428–429
Islamic calendar	441–442
Japanese calendar	Eishō 5 (永承５年)
Javanese calendar	953–954
Julian calendar	1050 ML
Korean calendar	3383
Minguo calendar	862 before ROC 民前862年
Nanakshahi calendar	−418
Seleucid era	1361/1362 AG
Thai solar calendar	1592–1593
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1176 or 795 or 23     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1177 or 796 or 24

King Macbeth of Scotland (c. 1005–1057)

Year 1050 (ML) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Hedeby in Jutland is sacked by King Harald Hardrada of Norway, during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.[1][2]
• King Anund Jacob dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother Emund the Old as king of Sweden.[3][4]
• Macbeth, King of Scotland, makes a pilgrimage to Rome.[5][6][7]

Africa

• Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire.[8][9][10]

By topic

Religion

• King Edward the Confessor unites the English dioceses of Devon and Cornwall. He moves the see from Crediton to Exeter and gives the order to build a cathedral.[11] Leofric becomes the first bishop of Exeter.[12][13][14]
• The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey (modern Germany) is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world (approximate date).[15][16][17]

Births

• November 11 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)[18][19][20]
• Amadeus II, count of Savoy (approximate date)[21]
• Berthold II, duke of Swabia (approximate date)[22][23]
• Bertrand of Comminges, French bishop (d. 1126)[24][25][26]
• Frederick I, duke of Swabia (approximate date)[27]
• Leopold II ("the Fair"), margrave of Austria (d. 1095)[28]
• Lhachen Gyalpo, king of Ladakh (approximate date)[29][30]
• Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman (approximate date)^[citation needed]
• Li Tang, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)[31][32][33]
• Lope Íñiguez, lord of Biscay (approximate date)[34]
• Michael VII Doukas, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)[35]
• Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Arab mathematician (d. 1141)[36]
• Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster (approximate date)[37][38]
• Olaf I ("Hunger"), king of Denmark (approximate date)[39]
• Olaf III ("the Peaceful"), king of Norway (approximate date)[40]
• Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer (d. 1090)[41]
• Peter the Hermit, French priest (approximate date)[42][43]
• Sophia of Hungary, duchess of Saxony (approximate date)[44]
• Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1113)[45][46][47]
• Vidyakara, Indian Buddhist scholar (d. 1130)^[citation needed]

Deaths

• February 10 – Anna, Grand Princess of Kiev (b. 1001)[48][49]
• October 29 – Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury[50][51][52]
• Alferius (or Alferio), Italian abbot and saint (b. 930)[53][54][55]
• Anund Jacob (or James), king of Sweden (b. 1008)[56][57][58]
• Casilda of Toledo, Spanish saint (approximate date)[59][60]
• Constantine Arianites, Byzantine general[61][62][63]
• Einar Thambarskelfir, Norwegian nobleman[64][65]
• Herleva, Norman noblewoman (approximate date)[66]
• Hugh of Langres, French bishop and theologian[67][68]
• Humphrey de Vieilles, Norman nobleman[69]
• Michael Dokeianos, Byzantine general[70][71][72]
• Suryavarman I, king of the Khmer Empire[73][74][75]
• Wifred II, count of Cerdanya and Berga[76][77]
• Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire[78][79][80]

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