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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1053 1054 1055 – 1056 – 1057 1058 1059

1056 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1056 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1056 MLVI
Ab urbe condita	1809
Armenian calendar	505 ԹՎ ՇԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-788 – -787
Berber calendar	2006
Buddhist calendar	1600
Burmese calendar	418
Byzantine calendar	6564 – 6565
Chinese calendar	乙未年十二月十二日 (3692/3752-12-12) — to — 丙申年十一月廿二日 (3693/3753-11-22)
Coptic calendar	772 – 773
Ethiopian calendar	1048 – 1049
Hebrew calendar	4816 – 4817
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1111 – 1112
- Shaka Samvat	978 – 979
- Kali Yuga	4157 – 4158
Holocene calendar	11056
Iranian calendar	434 – 435
Islamic calendar	447 – 448
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3389
Thai solar calendar	1599
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Anselm leaves Italy.
• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany.
• Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria.
• The Pagoda of Fugong Temple of Shanxi in northern China is built during the Liao Dynasty. Work begins on the Pizhi Pagoda of Lingyan Temple, Shandong, China, under the opposing Song Dynasty.
• The Muslims expel 300 Christians from Jerusalem, and European Christians are forbidden to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
• Macedonian dynasty ends in Byzantine Empire.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• August 31—Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 981)
• October 5—Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
• Abu L'Ala al-Ma'arri, Syrian poet