1076

Year 1076 (MLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s
Years:	1073 1074 1075 1076 1077 1078 1079

1076 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1076 MLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1829
Armenian calendar	525 ԹՎ ՇԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5826
Balinese saka calendar	997–998
Bengali calendar	483
Berber calendar	2026
English Regnal year	10 Will. 1 – 11 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1620
Burmese calendar	438
Byzantine calendar	6584–6585
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3773 or 3566     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3774 or 3567
Coptic calendar	792–793
Discordian calendar	2242
Ethiopian calendar	1068–1069
Hebrew calendar	4836–4837
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1132–1133
- Shaka Samvat	997–998
- Kali Yuga	4176–4177
Holocene calendar	11076
Igbo calendar	76–77
Iranian calendar	454–455
Islamic calendar	468–469
Japanese calendar	Jōhō 3 (承保３年)
Javanese calendar	980–981
Julian calendar	1076 MLXXVI
Korean calendar	3409
Minguo calendar	836 before ROC 民前836年
Nanakshahi calendar	−392
Seleucid era	1387/1388 AG
Thai solar calendar	1618–1619
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1202 or 821 or 49     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1203 or 822 or 50

Bolesław II the Bold, King of Poland

Events

By place

Europe

• January 24 – Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, holds a synod in Worms (modern Germany). The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed, and the bishops abandon their allegiance to him.
• February 22 – Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church, and all the bishops named by Henry are excommunicated.
• Summer – Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia (modern Netherlands) from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde, taking him prisoner.
• October 8 – Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin (near Split), in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses (known later as the Hollow Church) by a representative of Gregory VII.
• December 13 – Norman conquest of southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno after a short siege.
• December 26 – Bolesław II the Bold (or "the Generous") is crowned as King of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.

England

• May 31 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, a participant in the Revolt of the Earls against King William the Conqueror, is beheaded near Winchester.
• November 1 – A frost begins that lasts until April 1077.
• Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest.

Africa

• Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids.

Asia

• Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II to become king of the Western Chalukya Empire (modern India).

By topic

Literature

• Anselm of Aosta, an Italian Benedictine abbot, completes his Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.

Religion

• Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.

Births

• June 1 – Mstislav I "the Great"), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1132)
• Fujiwara no Sadazane, Japanese calligrapher (d. 1120)
• Urban (or Gwrgan), bishop of Llandaff (d. 1134)
• Approximate date
  • Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Moorish scholar and judge (d. 1148)
  • Hualani, Hawaiian queen and regent

Deaths

• February 26 or 27 – Godfrey the Hunchback, duke of Lower Lorraine
• March 18 – Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy
• March 21 – Robert I ("the Old"), duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
• April 18 – Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
• April 28 – Sweyn II Estridsson, king of Denmark
• May 8 – Nasr ibn Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
• May 26 – Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona (b. 1023)
• May 31 – Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (executed)
• June 4 – Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (or Navarre)
• July 15 – Arnost (or Arnošt), bishop of Rochester
• Ramihrdus of Cambrai, French heretic priest and martyr (or 1077)
• William Busac, French nobleman (jure uxoris) (b. 1020)