1059
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1020s 1030s 1040s – 1050s – 1060s 1070s 1080s |
| Years: | 1056 1057 1058 – 1059 – 1060 1061 1062 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1059 MLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1812 |
| Armenian calendar | 508 ԹՎ ՇԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5809 |
| Bengali calendar | 466 |
| Berber calendar | 2009 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1603 |
| Burmese calendar | 421 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6567–6568 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3755 or 3695 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3756 or 3696 |
| Coptic calendar | 775–776 |
| Discordian calendar | 2225 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1051–1052 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4819–4820 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1115–1116 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 981–982 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4160–4161 |
| Holocene calendar | 11059 |
| Igbo calendar | 59–60 |
| Iranian calendar | 437–438 |
| Islamic calendar | 450–451 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōhei 2 (康平２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1059 MLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3392 |
| Minguo calendar | 853 before ROC 民前853年 |
| Seleucid era | 1370/1371 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1601–1602 |
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Year 1059 (MLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 24 – Pope Nicholas II succeeds Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope, installed in Rome in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
- April 13 – Pope Nicholas II, with the agreement of the Lateran Council, issues the papal bull In nomine Domini making the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the papal conclave for the election of popes.
- August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.
- November 22 – Isaac I Komnenos resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his successor.
- Muhammad bin Dawud, known as Alp Arslan, succeeds his father Chaghri Beg as governor of Khorasan.
- Peter Krešimir IV is crowned King of Croatia and Dalmatia.
Births
- Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler of the First Crusade
Deaths
- August 30 – Peter Urseolo of Hungary
- Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Michael VI Bringas, Byzantine Emperor, reigned 1056-1057
