1020
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Gregorian calendar | 1020 MXX |
Ab urbe condita | 1773 |
Armenian calendar | 469 ԹՎ ՆԿԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5770 |
Balinese saka calendar | 941–942 |
Bengali calendar | 427 |
Berber calendar | 1970 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1564 |
Burmese calendar | 382 |
Byzantine calendar | 6528–6529 |
Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3717 or 3510 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3718 or 3511 |
Coptic calendar | 736–737 |
Discordian calendar | 2186 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1012–1013 |
Hebrew calendar | 4780–4781 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1076–1077 |
- Shaka Samvat | 941–942 |
- Kali Yuga | 4120–4121 |
Holocene calendar | 11020 |
Igbo calendar | 20–21 |
Iranian calendar | 398–399 |
Islamic calendar | 410–411 |
Japanese calendar | Kannin 4 (寛仁4年) |
Javanese calendar | 922–923 |
Julian calendar | 1020 MXX |
Korean calendar | 3353 |
Minguo calendar | 892 before ROC 民前892年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −448 |
Seleucid era | 1331/1332 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1562–1563 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1146 or 765 or −7 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1147 or 766 or −6 |
Year 1020 (MXX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]- Summer – Emperor Henry II conducts his third Italian military campaign. He makes plans to invade the south, but remains non-committal.
- June 15 – Byzantine troops under Catepan Basil Boioannes (supported by his ally Prince Pandulf IV) capture the fortress of Troia.
- The French city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded by King Robert II (the Pious).
- King Canute the Great codifies the laws of England (approximate date).
- King Gagik I of Armenia is succeeded by Hovhannes-Smbat III.
Births
[edit]- Almodis de la Marche, French noblewoman (d. 1071)
- Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent (d. 1076)
- Benno II, German bishop and architect (approximate date)
- Bernard of Menthon, French priest and saint (d. 1081)
- Conrad I (or Cuno), duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
- Filarete of Calabria, Sicilian saint (approximate date)
- Gonzalo Sánchez, Spanish nobleman (approximate date)
- Gunhilda of Denmark, German queen (approximate date)
- Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
- Hallvard Vebjørnsson, Norwegian saint (approximate date)
- Kunigunde of Altdorf, German noblewoman (approximate date)
- Maria of Gaeta, Italian noblewoman (approximate date)
- Osbern Giffard, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
- Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
- Stephen IX, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
- Su Song, Chinese statesman and scientist (d. 1101)
- Sweyn Godwinson, English nobleman (approximate date)
- Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1052)
- William I (the Great), count of Burgundy (d. 1087)
- William Busac, English nobleman (jure uxoris) (d. 1076)
- William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (approximate date)
- William of Poitiers, French priest and writer (d. 1090)
- Wulfhild of Norway, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1071)
- Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1077)
Deaths
[edit]- June 12 – Lyfing, archbishop of Canterbury
- June 15 – Dattus (or Datto), Lombard rebel leader
- August 16 – Zhou Huaizheng, Chinese eunuch
- Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad, Muslim imam (b. 944)
- Al-Sijzi, Persian mathematician (approximate date)
- Bernard I (Taillefer), Spanish nobleman
- Bouchard II (the Bearded), French nobleman (b. 975)
- Einar Sigurdsson, Norse Viking nobleman
- Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author (b. 940)
- Gagik I, king of Bagratid Armenia (approximate date)
- Gerald I (Tranche-Lion), French nobleman
- Gojslav, king of Croatia (approximate date)
- Leif Ericson, Norse Viking explorer (approximate date)
- Melus of Bari, Lombard nobleman and rebel leader
- Radim Gaudentius, Polish archbishop (b. 970)
- Stephen I of Vermandois, French nobleman
- Trdat the Architect, Armenian chief architect