1028

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s 1040s
Years:	1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 1031

1028 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1028 MXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1781
Armenian calendar	477 ԹՎ ՆՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5778
Balinese saka calendar	949–950
Bengali calendar	435
Berber calendar	1978
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1572
Burmese calendar	390
Byzantine calendar	6536–6537
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3725 or 3518     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3726 or 3519
Coptic calendar	744–745
Discordian calendar	2194
Ethiopian calendar	1020–1021
Hebrew calendar	4788–4789
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1084–1085
- Shaka Samvat	949–950
- Kali Yuga	4128–4129
Holocene calendar	11028
Igbo calendar	28–29
Iranian calendar	406–407
Islamic calendar	418–419
Japanese calendar	Manju 5 / Chōgen 1 (長元元年)
Javanese calendar	930–931
Julian calendar	1028 MXXVIII
Korean calendar	3361
Minguo calendar	884 before ROC 民前884年
Nanakshahi calendar	−440
Seleucid era	1339/1340 AG
Thai solar calendar	1570–1571
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1154 or 773 or 1     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1155 or 774 or 2

Silver miliaresion of Emperor Romanos III

Year 1028 (MXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• November 11 – Emperor Constantine VIII dies at Constantinople after a 3-year reign.^[1] On his deathbed, and without a male heir, Constantine arranges that his eldest daughter, Zoë Porphyrogenita, succeeds him and marries the Byzantine nobleman, Romanos III (Argyros).
• November 15 – Zoë Porphyrogenita takes the throne as empress consort. Her husband, Romanos III (age 60) becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

England

• Cnut the Great sails from England to Norway with a fleet of 50 ships. He defeats Olaf Haraldsson and is crowned king of Norway. Cnut becomes the sole ruler of England, Denmark and part of Sweden (known as the Danish North Sea Empire).

Europe

• April 14 – The 10-year-old Henry III (the Black), son of Emperor Conrad II (the Elder), is elected and crowned king of Germany in Aachen Cathedral by Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne.
• King Sancho Garcés III (the Great) conquers Castile (modern Spain) (approximate date).

Births

• February 17 – Al-Juwayni, Persian scholar and imam (d. 1085)
• Burchard II (or Bucco), bishop of Halberstadt (approximate date)
• Nuño Álvarez de Carazo, Spanish nobleman and warrior (d. 1054)
• Qutb Shah, Persian Sufi religious leader and scholar (d. 1099)
• Robert of Molesme, founder of the Cistercian Order (d. 1111)
• William I (the Conqueror), king of England (approximate date) (d. 1087)

Deaths

• January 3 – Fujiwara no Michinaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 966)
• August 7 – Alfonso V (the Noble), king of León (Spain) (b. 994)
• November 11 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960)
• Lin Bu (or Junfu), Chinese poet and calligrapher (b. 967)
• Liu Wenzhi, Chinese official of the Song dynasty (b. 964)
• Lý Công Uẩn, founder of the Vietnamese Lý dynasty (b. 974)
• Qawam al-Dawla, Buyid governor and ruler of Kerman (b. 1000)
• Sayyida Shirin, Bavandid princess and wife of Fakhr al-Dawla
• William of Bellême, French nobleman (House of Bellême)

References

1. Ladner, Gerhart B. Images and Ideas in the Middle Ages: Selected Studies in History and Art, Volume 1. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1983. 315.