1083

1081 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086 1087 1088 1089 1090

political events

Otto II of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria, dies January 11 of a wound received in a battle on the Elster River in October 1080. His death ends the military support for the anti-king Hermann of Salm, who was elected in 1080 to oppose Heinrich IV.

A synod meets at Rome to resolve the quarrel between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Heinrich IV, but the synod has secretly bound itself either to crown Henry emperor or select a new pope (see 1084).

The Byzantine forces of Alexius I Comnenus drive the Norman Bohemond out of Larissa in Thessaly (see 1082; 1085).

William the Conqueror's wife, Matilda, dies November 2 at age 49 and is buried at the nunnery she has founded at Caen.

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1050s  1060s  1070s  – 1080s –  1090s  1100s  1110s
Years:	1080 1081 1082 – 1083 – 1084 1085 1086

1083 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1083 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1083 MLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1836
Armenian calendar	532 ԹՎ ՇԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-761 – -760
Berber calendar	2033
Buddhist calendar	1627
Burmese calendar	445
Byzantine calendar	6591 – 6592
Chinese calendar	壬戌年十二月十一日 (3719/3779-12-11) — to — 癸亥年十一月二十日 (3720/3780-11-20)
Coptic calendar	799 – 800
Ethiopian calendar	1075 – 1076
Hebrew calendar	4843 – 4844
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1138 – 1139
- Shaka Samvat	1005 – 1006
- Kali Yuga	4184 – 4185
Holocene calendar	11083
Iranian calendar	461 – 462
Islamic calendar	475 – 476
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3416
Thai solar calendar	1626
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Events

• Sancho I of Aragon conquers Graus.
• Alfonso VI of Castile conquers Talavera de la Reina.
• Bosnia is conquered by Duklja.
• June—Pope Gregory VII is besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

Births

• December 1—Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)

Deaths

• Matilda of Flanders, wife of King William I of England
• Zeng Gong, Chinese historian and scholar (born 1019)

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