1065

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1040s 1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s
Years:	1062 1063 1064 1065 1066 1067 1068

1065 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1065 MLXV
Ab urbe condita	1818
Armenian calendar	514 ԹՎ ՇԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5815
Balinese saka calendar	986–987
Bengali calendar	472
Berber calendar	2015
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1609
Burmese calendar	427
Byzantine calendar	6573–6574
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3762 or 3555     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3763 or 3556
Coptic calendar	781–782
Discordian calendar	2231
Ethiopian calendar	1057–1058
Hebrew calendar	4825–4826
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1121–1122
- Shaka Samvat	986–987
- Kali Yuga	4165–4166
Holocene calendar	11065
Igbo calendar	65–66
Iranian calendar	443–444
Islamic calendar	457–458
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 8 / Jiryaku 1 (治暦元年)
Javanese calendar	968–969
Julian calendar	1065 MLXV
Korean calendar	3398
Minguo calendar	847 before ROC 民前847年
Nanakshahi calendar	−403
Seleucid era	1376/1377 AG
Thai solar calendar	1607–1608
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1191 or 810 or 38     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1192 or 811 or 39

Year 1065 (MLXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• December 24 – King Ferdinand I of León ("the Great") dies in León, Spain, after an 11-year reign as Emperor of All Spain. His kingdom is divided among his three sons: the eldest Sancho II, the second Alfonso VI and the youngest García II. The kingdoms of Galicia and Portugal become independent under the rule of García.

Political situation in the Northern Iberian Peninsula around 1065:

  Garcia II's domains (Galicia)

  Badajoz, owing tribute to Garcia

  Seville, owing tribute to Garcia

  Alfonso VI's domains (León)

  Toledo, owing tribute to Alfonso

  Sancho II's domains (Castile)

  Zaragoza, owing tribute to Sancho

England

• October 3 – Northumbria revolts against Tostig Godwinson, who is exiled. He takes refuge with his brother-in-law, Count Baldwin V in Flanders (modern Belgium). The Northumbrian nobles choose Morcar (or Morkere) as earl at York.
• December 28 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated by King Edward the Confessor.^[1]

Seljuk Empire

• Alp Arslan, leader of the Seljuk Turks, campaigns against the Kipchaks and the Türkmen in Central Asia. He captures the city of Kars and plunders the western provinces of Georgia.

China

• Sima Guang, chancellor of the Song dynasty, heads a team of scholars in initiating the compilation of an enormous written universal history of China, known as the Zizhi Tongjian.

By topic

Religion

• Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–65: A large pilgrimage led by Siegfried I (archbishop of Mainz) arrives in Jerusalem after having been attacked by Bedouin bandits. Two weeks later (in April) they return to Ramla and take ships back to Latakia.
• Gregory II the Martyrophile is consecrated as catholicos of the Armenian church in Tzamandos

Astronomy

• A "guest star" (i.e. a nova of some kind) is observed from China. It may be related to the Strottner-Drechsler Object 20 nebula.^[2]

Births

• Agnes of Rheinfelden, duchess of Swabia (d. 1111)
• Callixtus II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1124)
• Guarinus of Sitten, bishop of Sion (approximate date)
• Henry I (the Long), German nobleman (d. 1087)
• Hugh VII of Lusignan, count of La Marche (d. 1151)
• Humbert II (the Fat), count of Savoy (d. 1103)
• Li Jie, Chinese writer of the Song Dynasty (d. 1110)
• Niels (or Nicholas), king of Denmark (d. 1134)
• Richard de Montfort, French nobleman (d. 1092)
• Robert II, count of Flanders (approximate date)
• Sibylla of Burgundy, duchess of Burgundy (approximate date)
• Stephen I, count palatine of Burgundy (d. 1102)
• Vladislaus I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
• Walter Tirel (or William Rufus), English nobleman

Deaths

• February 7 – Siegfried I, count of Sponheim
• May 17 – Egilbert (or Engelbert), bishop of Passau
• May 18 – Frederick, duke of Lower Lorraine
• June 27 – George the Hagiorite, Georgian calligrapher (b. 1009)
• July 22 – Ibn Abi Hasina, Arab poet and panegyrist (b. 998)
• July 23 – Gunther of Bamberg, German nobleman
• December 24 – Ferdinand I (the Great), king of León and Castile
• Diarmaid mac Tadgh Ua Ceallaigh, king of Uí Maine
• Ermengol III (or Armengol), count of Urgell (b. 1032)
• Gisela (or Gizella), queen consort of Hungary (b. 985)
• Gomes Echigues, Portuguese knight and governor (b. 1010)
• Gusiluo, Tibetan religious leader of Buddhism (b. 997)
• Llywelyn Aurdorchog, Welsh nobleman (approximate date)
• Thorfinn (the Mighty), Norse nobleman (approximate date)

References

1. "The consecration of Westminster Abbey | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
2. Kimeswenger, Stefan; Thorstensen, John R.; Fesen, Robert A.; Drechsler, Marcel; Strottner, Xavier; Germiniani, Maicon; Steindl, Thomas; Przybilla, Norbert; Weil, Kathryn E.; Rupert, Justin (December 2021). "YY Hya and its interstellar environment". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 656: A145. arXiv:2110.03935. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039787.