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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1068 1069 1070 – 1071 – 1072 1073 1074

1071 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1071 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1071 MLXXI
Ab urbe condita	1824
Armenian calendar	520 ԹՎ ՇԻ
Bahá'í calendar	-773 – -772
Bengali calendar	478
Berber calendar	2021
Buddhist calendar	1615
Burmese calendar	433
Byzantine calendar	6579 – 6580
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月廿七日 (3707/3767-11-27) — to — 辛亥年十二月初八日 (3708/3768-12-8)
Coptic calendar	787 – 788
Ethiopian calendar	1063 – 1064
Hebrew calendar	4831 – 4832
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1126 – 1127
- Shaka Samvat	993 – 994
- Kali Yuga	4172 – 4173
Holocene calendar	11071
Iranian calendar	449 – 450
Islamic calendar	463 – 464
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3404
Thai solar calendar	1614
v • d • e

Year 1071 (MLXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday ^[1] (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events

• February 22—Battle of Cassel: Robert the Frisian defeats his sister-in-law Richilde and nephew Arnulf III, who is also killed in the battle.
• April 16—The last Byzantine-controlled city in southern Italy, Bari, is captured by Robert Guiscard.
• August 26—Battle of Manzikert: The Byzantine Empire loses to a Turkish army led by Alp Arslan. Byzantine civil war results in Turkish invasions.
• Construction of Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire, England begins.
• A succession struggle erupts in Flanders between Richilde, widow of Baldwin VI, and her brother-in-law Robert the Frisian, son of Baldwin V. Robert defeats Richilde in the battle of Cassel on February 22 and is appointed count by King Philip.
• Edwin, Earl of Mercia rebels against William I and is killed, leading to the re-distribution of land within Mercia to William's subjects.

[edit] Births

• October 22—William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (d. 1126)

[edit] Deaths

• February 22—Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (in battle) (b. c. 1055)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar – Portugal – 1071" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1071-Portugal.