1030

This article is about the year 1030.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1000s  1010s  1020s  – 1030s –  1040s  1050s  1060s
Years:	1027 1028 1029 – 1030 – 1031 1032 1033

1030 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1030 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1030 MXXX
Ab urbe condita	1783
Armenian calendar	479 ԹՎ ՆՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	5780
Bengali calendar	437
Berber calendar	1980
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1574
Burmese calendar	392
Byzantine calendar	6538–6539
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3726 or 3666     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3727 or 3667
Coptic calendar	746–747
Discordian calendar	2196
Ethiopian calendar	1022–1023
Hebrew calendar	4790–4791
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1086–1087
- Shaka Samvat	952–953
- Kali Yuga	4131–4132
Holocene calendar	11030
Igbo calendar	30–31
Iranian calendar	408–409
Islamic calendar	420–421
Japanese calendar	Chōgen 3 (長元３年)
Julian calendar	1030 MXXX
Korean calendar	3363
Minguo calendar	882 before ROC 民前882年
Seleucid era	1341/1342 AG
Thai solar calendar	1572–1573

Year 1030 (MXXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• June – Stephen I of Hungary forces the invading armies of the Holy Roman Empire led by Conrad II to retreat back to Germany.
• July 29 – Battle of Stiklestad (Norway): Olaf II of Norway loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle. He is later canonized and becomes the patron saint of Norway and Rex perpetuum Norvegiae ('the eternal king of Norway').
• The city of Kaunas in Lithuania is founded.
• First mention of Tartu, Estonia, as Yaroslav the Wise of Novgorod and Kiev raids the Estonian fortress of Tarbatu and founds a fort named Yuryev.
• Earliest mention of Thalwil, Switzerland.
• Henry I of France revolts against his father Robert.

Asia

• The Song Dynasty Chinese historian and scholar Ouyang Xiu obtains his jinshi degree at the age of only 22 by passing the highest level examinations in the country (his third attempt), leading him into a distinguished path as a scholar-official.
• Byzantine Emperor Romanus III invades Syria and is defeated at the Battle of Azaz.
• Masud seizes the throne of the Ghaznavid Empire after the death of his father Mahmud.

Births

• July 21 – Kyansittha, King of Burma (d. 1112)
• July 26 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
• Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (d. 1070)
• Vsevolod I of Kiev (d. 1093)

Deaths

• January 31 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• April 30 – Mahmud of Ghazni
• July 19 – Adalberon, bishop of Laon
• July 29 – King Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)