1081

This article is about the year 1081.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1050s  1060s  1070s  – 1080s –  1090s  1100s  1110s
Years:	1078 1079 1080 – 1081 – 1082 1083 1084

1081 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1081 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1081 MLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1834
Armenian calendar	530 ԹՎ ՇԼ
Assyrian calendar	5831
Bengali calendar	488
Berber calendar	2031
English Regnal year	15 Will. 1 – 16 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1625
Burmese calendar	443
Byzantine calendar	6589–6590
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3777 or 3717     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3778 or 3718
Coptic calendar	797–798
Discordian calendar	2247
Ethiopian calendar	1073–1074
Hebrew calendar	4841–4842
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1137–1138
- Shaka Samvat	1003–1004
- Kali Yuga	4182–4183
Holocene calendar	11081
Igbo calendar	81–82
Iranian calendar	459–460
Islamic calendar	473–474
Japanese calendar	Jōryaku 5 / Eihō 1 (永保元年)
Julian calendar	1081 MLXXXI
Korean calendar	3414
Minguo calendar	831 before ROC 民前831年
Seleucid era	1392/1393 AG
Thai solar calendar	1623–1624

Year 1081 (MLXXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 1 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates is overthrown by Alexios I Komnenos who is crowned on April 5, ending the Middle Byzantine period and beginning the Comnenan dynasty.
• May 8 – Alfonso VI of Castile marries Constance of Burgundy.
• October 18 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Battle of Dyrrhachium: Alexios I helps defend Albania from the Normans (the first recorded mention of Albania) but is defeated by Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria, outside the city of Dyrrhachium (Durrës), the Byzantine capital of Illyria. The Normans govern Albania from southern Italy until around 1100.
• Corfu is taken from the Byzantine Empire by Robert Guiscard.
• Turkish emir Tzachas conquers İzmir and founds a short-lived principality, emerging as the first sea power in Turkish history.
• Battle of Mynydd Carn near St Davids in Wales: Gruffudd ap Cynan in alliance with Rhys ap Tewdwr (prince of Deheubarth) defeats the forces of Trahaearn ap Caradog, Caradog ap Gruffydd and Meilir ap Rhiwallon (who are all killed), allowing Gruffudd to claim the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
• Construction begins on St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense.
• Pope Gregory VII writes a letter to the Bishop Of Metz about Henry IV's behavior.

Births

• December 1 – King Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (d. 1151) (probable date)

Deaths

• April 2 or 3 (possible dates) – Bolesław II the Generous, deposed King of Poland (b. c.1041/2) (probably poisoned)
• September 1 – Bishop Eusebius of Angers
• October 18 – Nikephoros Palaiologos, Byzantine general
• December 10 – Nikephoros III Botaneiates, deposed Byzantine Emperor (b. c.1002)
• Caradog ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwent (killed in battle)
• Trahaearn ap Caradog, King of Gwynedd (killed in battle)