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Palermo falls January 10 to Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, who begin to conquer all of Sicily.
The former German regent Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, dies at Goslar, Saxony, March 16 at age 71 (approximate).
Castile's Sancho el Fuerte is assassinated at the siege of Zamora while warring with Sancho IV of Navarre. He is succeeded by his brother, who will reign until 1109 as Alfonso VI, resuming the Christian reconquest of Castile with help from El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar), whom he will soon exile from Castile.
The Seljuk Turkish sultan Alp-Arslan gives the Armenian city of Ani to the Kurdish Shaddadids as a fief (see 1071), but he is mortally wounded by a prisoner during a quarrel on the Qarakhanid frontier in November and dies (or will die early next year) at age 42 (approximate), after a 9-year reign. He has named his 18-year-old son as his successor, and the boy will reign until his death in 1092 as Malik-Shah, initially under the guardianship of his able vizier Nizam al-Mulk, now about 53, who has been administering the traditional Sunni Muslim countries during Alp-Arslan's reign.
The Japanese emperor Gosanjō abdicates at age 38 (he is ill and will die next year). Having been frustrated in his reform efforts by the Fujiwara clan, whose great estates have claimed judicial and fiscal autonomy, Gosanjō has chosen as his successor his second son, Sadahito, now 20, who will reign until 1086 as the emperor Shirakawa, taking advantage of bitter divisions within the court to reassert the authority that his father failed to maintain.
Chinese poet-historian-statesman Ouyang Xiu (Ou-yang Hsiu) dies in Henan (Hunan) Province at age 65, having reintroduced the simple "ancient style" in literature while trying to reform political life through classical Confucian principles.
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This article is about the year 1072.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1040s 1050s 1060s – 1070s – 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1069 1070 1071 – 1072 – 1073 1074 1075 |
| 1072 by topic | |
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| State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1072 MLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1825 |
| Armenian calendar | 521 ԹՎ ՇԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5822 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -772–-771 |
| Bengali calendar | 479 |
| Berber calendar | 2022 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Will. 1 – 7 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1616 |
| Burmese calendar | 434 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6580–6581 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年十二月初九日 (3708/3768-12-9) — to —
壬子年十一月十九日(3709/3769-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 788–789 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1064–1065 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4832–4833 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1128–1129 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 994–995 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4173–4174 |
| Holocene calendar | 11072 |
| Iranian calendar | 450–451 |
| Islamic calendar | 464–465 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3405 |
| Minguo calendar | 840 before ROC 民前840年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1615 |
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Year 1072 (MLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 10 – The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.
- May 27 – The Accord of Winchester establishes the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York in the Church of England.
- William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.
- Osbern FitzOsbern becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- Dunfermline Abbey is founded – later to become the burial place of several Kings of Scots, including Robert the Bruce. The associated royal palace will be the birth place of King Charles I.
- Alfonso VI becomes king of Leon and Castile following the assassination of his brother Sancho.
- Divan'ı Lügat'ı Türk. An informative book written by Kaşgarlı Mahmut of Karakhanids to be presented to Caliph, about Turks.
Asia
- The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.
- Shen Kuo is sent to supervise Chancellor Wang Anshi's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city of Kaifeng. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredges the canal and demonstrates the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer.
Births
- Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Savoy (d. 1143)
- Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Norman leader of the First Crusade (d. 1112)
Deaths
- February 22 – Peter Damian, Italian saint (b. c. 1007)
- March 16 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
- September 22 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet (b. 1007)
- November 24 – King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
- December 15 – Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
- Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury
References
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