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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1055 1056 1057 – 1058 – 1059 1060 1061

1059 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1059 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1059 MLIX
Ab urbe condita	1812
Armenian calendar	508 ԹՎ ՇԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-785 – -784
Berber calendar	2009
Buddhist calendar	1603
Burmese calendar	421
Byzantine calendar	6567 – 6568
Chinese calendar	戊戌年十二月十五日 (3695/3755-12-15) — to — 己亥年十一月廿四日 (3696/3756-11-24)
Coptic calendar	775 – 776
Ethiopian calendar	1051 – 1052
Hebrew calendar	4819 – 4820
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1114 – 1115
- Shaka Samvat	981 – 982
- Kali Yuga	4160 – 4161
Holocene calendar	11059
Iranian calendar	437 – 438
Islamic calendar	450 – 451
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3392
Thai solar calendar	1602
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Anselm settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.
• The Lateran Council makes the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the election of popes.
• Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan, becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• Isaac I Comnenus resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his successor.
• January 24—Pope Nicholas II succeeds Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope, installed in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
• August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.

[edit] Births

• Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler of the First Crusade

[edit] Deaths

• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople
• August 30 – Peter Urseolo of Hungary