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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1040 1041 1042 – 1043 – 1044 1045 1046

1043 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1043 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1043 MXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1796
Armenian calendar	492 ԹՎ ՆՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-801 – -800
Bengali calendar	450
Berber calendar	1993
Buddhist calendar	1587
Burmese calendar	405
Byzantine calendar	6551 – 6552
Chinese calendar	壬午年十一月十八日 (3679/3739-11-18) — to — 癸未年十一月廿七日 (3680/3740-11-27)
Coptic calendar	759 – 760
Ethiopian calendar	1035 – 1036
Hebrew calendar	4803 – 4804
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1098 – 1099
- Shaka Samvat	965 – 966
- Kali Yuga	4144 – 4145
Holocene calendar	11043
Iranian calendar	421 – 422
Islamic calendar	434 – 435
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3376
Thai solar calendar	1586
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of State 5 Astronomy

[edit] Events

• Rus'-Byzantine War (1043).
• Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral.
• Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor marries Agnes de Poitou.
• The revolt of George Maniaces against Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX ends when Maniaces is killed in battle near Thessalonica.
• The Ziyarid dynasty of Persia is crushed by the Seljuks.
• In Song Dynasty China, the statesmen Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan put forth the Qingli Reforms, which are halted by 1045.
• The Norman brothers, William Iron Arm and Drogo de Hauteville, assume power in Apulia.
• Beginning of the Kingdom of Nri in West Africa.

[edit] Births

• Fulk IV of Anjou
• Abu Muhammad Baghawi, Persian traditionalist
• El Cíd Campeador of Castile

[edit] Deaths

• George Maniaces, Byzantine general
• Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empress (b.989

[edit] Heads of State

• England—Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066)
• France—Henry I (reigned 1031–1060)
• Holy See—Benedict IX (Pope 1032–1044, 1045–1046 and 1047–1048)
• Nri—Eze Nri Ìfikuánim (reigned 1043–1189)
• Russia—Yaroslav the Wise (reigned 1018–1054)

[edit] Astronomy

• October 31st: Venus occulted Jupiter