1011

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political events

England's Ethelred (Aethelred) II invades South Wales; the Danes take Canterbury in his absence, begin a sack of the town September 8, and seize the 57-year-old archbishop Elphege (Aelfheah).

The Japanese emperor Ichijo dies at age 31 after a 15-year reign and is succeeded by his cousin, 35, who will reign until 1016 as Sanjo but begins to lose his eyesight almost immediately.

religion

China's third Song (Sung) dynasty emperor Zhen Zong (Chen Tsung) decrees that temples to Confucius be built in all district cities. Claiming divine revelation, the emperor has created a number of new cults in which rival Buddhist and Daoist (Taoist) beliefs have been fused.

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1008 1009 1010 – 1011 – 1012 1013 1014

1011 by topic

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Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1011 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1011 MXI
Ab urbe condita	1764
Armenian calendar	460 ԹՎ ՆԿ
Bahá'í calendar	-833 – -832
Berber calendar	1961
Buddhist calendar	1555
Burmese calendar	373
Byzantine calendar	6519 – 6520
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月廿四日 (3647/3707-11-24) — to — 辛亥年十二月初四日 (3648/3708-12-4)
Coptic calendar	727 – 728
Ethiopian calendar	1003 – 1004
Hebrew calendar	4771 – 4772
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1066 – 1067
- Shaka Samvat	933 – 934
- Kali Yuga	4112 – 4113
Holocene calendar	11011
Iranian calendar	389 – 390
Islamic calendar	401 – 402
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3344
Thai solar calendar	1554
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Events

By place

Japan

• Emperor Sanjō ascends to the throne of Japan.

Egypt

• Baghdad Manifesto: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah's descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib is disputed.
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), a famous Iraqi scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness in fear of angering Al-Hakim, and is kept under house arrest until 1021. During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.

China

• The Chinese Guangyun rime dictionary is compiled under Emperor Zhenzong of Song.

Births

• Robert I, Duke of Burgundy
• Shao Yong, Song Dynasty philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian (d. 1077)

Deaths

• November 21—Emperor Reizei of Japan (b. 950)
• Emperor Ichijō of Japan (b. 980)
• Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready (b.986)

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