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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1041 1042 1043 – 1044 – 1045 1046 1047

1044 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1044 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1044 MXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1797
Armenian calendar	493 ԹՎ ՆՂԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-800 – -799
Bengali calendar	451
Berber calendar	1994
Buddhist calendar	1588
Burmese calendar	406
Byzantine calendar	6552 – 6553
Chinese calendar	癸未年十一月廿八日 (3680/3740-11-28) — to — 甲申年十二月初十日 (3681/3741-12-10)
Coptic calendar	760 – 761
Ethiopian calendar	1036 – 1037
Hebrew calendar	4804 – 4805
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1099 – 1100
- Shaka Samvat	966 – 967
- Kali Yuga	4145 – 4146
Holocene calendar	11044
Iranian calendar	422 – 423
Islamic calendar	435 – 436
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3377
Thai solar calendar	1587
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of State

[edit] Events

• King Anawrahta seizes the throne of Pagan, Myanmar.
• Benedict IX abdicates as pope. Sylvester III succeeds him.
• The Chinese military treatise of the Wujing Zongyao is written and compiled by scholars Zeng Gongliang (曾公亮), Ding Du (丁度), and Yang Weide (楊惟德) during the Song Dynasty. It is the first book in history to include formulas for gunpowder and its use for various bombs (thrown by sling or trebuchet catapult). It also describes the double-piston pump flamethrower and a thermoremanence compass, a few decades before Shen Kuo wrote of the first known magnetic mariners compass. Although emphasizing the importance of many weapons, it reserves high respect for the crossbow and ability of crossbowmen to fell charging units of nomadic cavalrymen.

[edit] Births

• Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid (d. 1099)

[edit] Deaths

• Gothelo I, Duke of Lotharingia

[edit] Heads of State

• Burma—Anawrahta (reigned 1044–1077)
• Byzantine Empire—Constantine IX Monomachos (reigned 1042–1055)
• China—Emperor Renzong of Song (reigned 1022–1063)
• England—Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066)
• France—Henri I (reigned 1031–1060)
• Germany—Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (reigned 1028–1053)
• Great Seljuq Empire—Toğrül (reigned 1037–1063)
• India—Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1012–1044)
• India—Somesvara I (reigned 1042–1068)
• Japan—Emperor Go-Suzaku (reigned 1036–1045)
• Korea—Jeongjong, 10th Emperor of Goryeo (reigned 1035–1046)
• Nri—Eze Nri Ìfikuánim (reigned 1043–1189)
• Rome—Pope Benedict IX (reigned 1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048)
• Scotland—Macbeth (reigned 1040–1057)