1077

This article is about the year 1077.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1074 1075 1076 – 1077 – 1078 1079 1080

1077 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1077 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1077 MLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1830
Armenian calendar	526 ԹՎ ՇԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5827
Bengali calendar	484
Berber calendar	2027
English Regnal year	11 Will. 1 – 12 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1621
Burmese calendar	439
Byzantine calendar	6585–6586
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3773 or 3713     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3774 or 3714
Coptic calendar	793–794
Discordian calendar	2243
Ethiopian calendar	1069–1070
Hebrew calendar	4837–4838
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1133–1134
- Shaka Samvat	999–1000
- Kali Yuga	4178–4179
Holocene calendar	11077
Igbo calendar	77–78
Iranian calendar	455–456
Islamic calendar	469–470
Japanese calendar	Jōhō 4 / Jōryaku 1 (承暦元年)
Julian calendar	1077 MLXXVII
Korean calendar	3410
Minguo calendar	835 before ROC 民前835年
Seleucid era	1388/1389 AG
Thai solar calendar	1619–1620

Year 1077 (MLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• The Almoravids complete the conquest of the Ghana Empire, and reach Spain.

Asia

• The Seljuk Turks capture Nicaea.
• Suleyman I of Rûm becomes the leader of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm in modern Turkey.
• Anushtegin Gharchai becomes, as a Seljuk vassal, leader of the Khwarezmid Empire.

Europe

• January 26 – Walk to Canossa: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, visits Pope Gregory VII as a penitent, asking him to remove sentence of excommunication.
• January 28 – The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• April 3
  • The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
  • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor grants the county of Friuli, with ducal status, to Sigaerd, Patriarch of Aquileia.
• Robert Curthose instigates his first insurrection against his father, William the Conqueror, in Normandy.
• The kingdom of Duklja is founded.
• The first recorded Trial by combat is held in England.
• Vsevolod of Kiev becomes the prince of Kievan Rus'.
• Alfonso VI of Castile conquers Coria.
• Pope Gregory VII places the island of Corsica under the secular rule of the archbishop of Pisa.
• Hugh of Burgundy supports the king of Aragon in his conquest of the castle of Muñones from the emir of Zaragossa.

By topic

Arts

• The Bayeux Tapestry is made.

Religion

• The first English Cluniac Benedictine priory is established, at Lewes.
• Paul of Caen is installed as Abbot of St Albans in England; the building of St Albans Abbey Church commences.
• Pope Christodolos of Alexandria ends his reign as Coptic Pope.
• Dionysius V Lazaros becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

• Joseph ibn Migash, rabbi (d. 1141)

Deaths

• April 25 – Géza I of Hungary
• Agnes of Poitou, wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor and regent (b. 1020)
• King Anawrahta of Burma (b. 1044)
• Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and author (b. 995)
• Shao Yong, Chinese philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian (b. 1011)
• Zhang Zai, Chinese Neo-Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1020)