1081
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This article is about the year 1081.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1050s 1060s 1070s – 1080s – 1090s 1100s 1110s |
| Years: | 1078 1079 1080 – 1081 – 1082 1083 1084 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1081 MLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1834 |
| Armenian calendar | 530 ԹՎ ՇԼ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5831 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -763–-762 |
| Bengali calendar | 488 |
| Berber calendar | 2031 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Will. 1 – 16 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1625 |
| Burmese calendar | 443 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6589–6590 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月十九日 (3717/3777-11-19) — to —
辛酉年十一月廿九日(3718/3778-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 797–798 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1073–1074 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4841–4842 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1137–1138 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1003–1004 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4182–4183 |
| Holocene calendar | 11081 |
| Iranian calendar | 459–460 |
| Islamic calendar | 473–474 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3414 |
| Minguo calendar | 831 before ROC 民前831年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1624 |
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Year 1081 (MLXXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- May 8 – Alfonso VI of Castile marries Constance of Burgundy.
- October 18 – Alexius I helps defend Albania from the Normans (the first recorded mention of Albania), but is defeated at the Battle of Dyrrhachium (Durazzo). The Normans govern Albania from Italy until around 1100.
- Corfu is taken from the Byzantine Empire by Robert Guiscard, Norman King of Southern Italy.
- Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III is overthrown by Alexius I Comnenus, ending the Middle Byzantine period and beginning the Comnenan dynasty.
- Turkish emir Tzachas conquers İzmir and founds a short lived principality and emerges as the first sea power in Turkish history.
- Construction begins on Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense.
[edit] Births
- December 1 – King Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
- Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (d. 1151) (probable date)
[edit] Deaths
- September 1 – Bishop Eusebius of Angers
- Richard, Duke of Bernay and Prince of England
- Bolesław II the Bold, King of Poland
- Nicephorus III, Byzantine Emperor
- Trahaearn ap Caradog, King of Gwynedd
