1069

This article is about the year 1069. For the number, see 1069 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1066 1067 1068 – 1069 – 1070 1071 1072

1069 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1069 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1069 MLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1822
Armenian calendar	518 ԹՎ ՇԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	5819
Bengali calendar	476
Berber calendar	2019
English Regnal year	3 Will. 1 – 4 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1613
Burmese calendar	431
Byzantine calendar	6577–6578
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3765 or 3705     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3766 or 3706
Coptic calendar	785–786
Discordian calendar	2235
Ethiopian calendar	1061–1062
Hebrew calendar	4829–4830
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1125–1126
- Shaka Samvat	991–992
- Kali Yuga	4170–4171
Holocene calendar	11069
Igbo calendar	69–70
Iranian calendar	447–448
Islamic calendar	461–462
Japanese calendar	Jiryaku 5 / Enkyū 1 (延久元年)
Julian calendar	1069 MLXIX
Korean calendar	3402
Minguo calendar	843 before ROC 民前843年
Seleucid era	1380/1381 AG
Thai solar calendar	1611–1612

Year 1069 (MLXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Harrying of the North: King William of England (William the Conqueror) reacts to rebellions made by his Anglo-Saxon subjects against him. He rides through the north of England with his army and burns houses, crops, cattle and land from York to Durham, which results in the deaths of over 100,000 people, mainly from starvation and winter cold.
• William the Conqueror founds the Norman Selby Abbey.
• Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad succeeds his father on the throne of the taifa of Seville.
• Emperor Shenzong of Song appoints Wang Anshi as his chief counsellor.
• Wang Anshi, chancellor of the Chinese Song dynasty, implements the New Policies, which include financial reforms, raising the salaries of officials to reduce corruption, institution of the baojia system, etc.
• Start of Nam tiến, the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam.
• Magnus II of Norway dies and Olaf III becomes sole King of Norway.
• The Seljuq Turks fail to capture Iconium, following a Byzantine counter-attack launched from Syria.

Births

• Mieszko Bolesławowic, Son of Bolesław II the Bold, King of Poland and Prince of Cracow (d.1089)
• Leo Diogenes, son of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes and Eudokia Makrembolitissa. Crowned co-emperor during his father's reign. (d. 1087)
• Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa

Deaths

• Ealdred (archbishop of York)
• Ibn Hazm, Muslim philosopher and theologian