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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1009 1010 1011 – 1012 – 1013 1014 1015

1012 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1012 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1012 MXII
Ab urbe condita	1765
Armenian calendar	461 ԹՎ ՆԿԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-832 – -831
Bengali calendar	419
Berber calendar	1962
Buddhist calendar	1556
Burmese calendar	374
Byzantine calendar	6520 – 6521
Chinese calendar	辛亥年十二月初五日 (3648/3708-12-5) — to — 壬子年十一月十六日 (3649/3709-11-16)
Coptic calendar	728 – 729
Ethiopian calendar	1004 – 1005
Hebrew calendar	4772 – 4773
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1067 – 1068
- Shaka Samvat	934 – 935
- Kali Yuga	4113 – 4114
Holocene calendar	11012
Iranian calendar	390 – 391
Islamic calendar	402 – 403
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3345
Thai solar calendar	1555
v • d • e

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• Mael Morda starts a rebellion against Brian Boru in Ireland, which eventually ends in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf.
• King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda of Alba reputedly defeats a Danish army at Cruden Bay in Buchan.
• Suleiman II is restored as Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, succeeding Hisham II.
• King Aethelred of England pays tribute to Viking raiders (Danegeld).
• Oldrich succeeds Jaromir as duke of Bohemia.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim orders the destruction of all Jewish and Christian places of worship.
• April 19—Archbishop Alphege of Canterbury is murdered by his Danish captors.
• May 18—Pope Benedict VIII succeeds Pope Sergius IV as the 143rd pope.
• Gregory VI becomes antipope.

[edit] Births

• Pope Benedict IX (approximate date)
• Marpa, Tibetan translator of holy texts (d. 1097)
• Cai Xiang Chinese Calligrapher (d. 1067)

[edit] Deaths

• April 19—Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
• May 12—Pope Sergius IV
• Otto, Duke of Lower Lorraine
• Ibn Faradi