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Year 1021 (MXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- November – Emperor Henry II conducts his fourth Italian military campaign. He crosses the Brenner Pass with a 60,000-strong army, and reaches Verona, where he receives Lombard levies. Henry proceeds to Mantua and then into Ravenna, to spend Christmas there.
- The Taifa of Valencia, a Moorish kingdom in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), becomes independent from the Caliphate of Córdoba (approximate date).
Africa
- 13 February – On one of his habitual night rides in the outskirts of Cairo, the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah disappears, most likely assassinated by disaffected palace factions, apparently involving his sister, Sitt al-Mulk.[1]
- 26 March – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of al-Hakim, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah. On the same day, al-Hakim's designated heir, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, is arrested in Damascus and brought to Egypt.[2]
- The last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-Arabophone culture in Tripolitania (modern Libya) is seen.Шаблон:Vague[3]
Asia
- Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni, king of Vaspurakan (Greater Armenia), surrenders his kingdom to the Byzantine Empire. In return, he receives Sebasteia and becomes governor of Cappadocia.[4]
- Battle of Shirimni, the Byzantine Empire under Basil II defeats the Kingdom of Georgia under Giorgi I at Shirimni, at the Lake Palakazio, modern Lake Çıldır, Turkey
- Hovhannes-Smbat III, King of the Armenian kingdom of Ani, is attacked by his younger brother Ashot IV, and loses much power to him, becoming concurrent king of outlying territories.
- Emperor Rajendra Chola I extends his influence of the Chola Empire to the banks of the Ganges River (North India) and invades Bengal.
- Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni appoints Malik Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore (modern Pakistan) the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.
- The Chinese capital city of Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this year. Including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
North America
- Vikings known to be occupying L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland (island).[5]
Births
- December 8 – Wang Anshi, Chinese chancellor (d. 1086)
- Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Byzantine empress (d. 1096)
- Fujiwara no Kanshi, Japanese empress consort (d. 1102)
- Wugunai, Chinese chieftain of the Wanyan tribe (d. 1074)
Deaths
- February 13 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 985)
- March 5 – Arnulf, French archbishop and illegitimate son of Lothair III
- March 16 – Heribert, archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 970)
- July 7 – Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Japanese bureaucrat (b. 944)
- August 17 – Erkanbald, German abbot and archbishop
- August 29 – Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 948)
- Fujiwara no Yoshikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 957)
- Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, Fatimid scholar and philosopher
- Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze
- Liu Mei, Chinese official and general (approximate date)
- Mac Cú Ceanain, king of Uí Díarmata (Ireland)
- Shams al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Hamadan (Iran)
- Trilochanapala, king of the Kabul Shani dynasty
References
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- ↑ Based on dating of a felled tree using dendrochronology based on a timeline using the 993–994 carbon-14 spike. Шаблон:Cite journal
