AD 1075

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 10th century11th century12th century
Decades: 1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years: 1072 1073 107410751076 1077 1078
1075 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1075
MLXXV
Ab urbe condita1828
Armenian calendar524
ԹՎ ՇԻԴ
Assyrian calendar5825
Balinese saka calendar996–997
Bengali calendar482
Berber calendar2025
English Regnal yearWill. 1 – 10 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1619
Burmese calendar437
Byzantine calendar6583–6584
Chinese calendar甲寅(Wood Tiger)
3771 or 3711
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3772 or 3712
Coptic calendar791–792
Discordian calendar2241
Ethiopian calendar1067–1068
Hebrew calendar4835–4836
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1131–1132
 - Shaka Samvat996–997
 - Kali Yuga4175–4176
Holocene calendar11075
Igbo calendar75–76
Iranian calendar453–454
Islamic calendar467–468
Japanese calendarJōhō 2
(承保2年)
Javanese calendar979–980
Julian calendar1075
MLXXV
Korean calendar3408
Minguo calendar837 before ROC
民前837年
Nanakshahi calendar−393
Seleucid era1386/1387 AG
Thai solar calendar1617–1618
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1201 or 820 or 48
    — to —
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1202 or 821 or 49

1075 (MLXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1075th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 75th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 11th century, and the 6th year of the 1070s decade. As of the start of 1075, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

  • February – Pope Gregory VII holds a council that publishes a decree against lay investiture.
  • April – Pope Gregory VII publishes the Dictatus Papae (Sayings of the Pope, aka the Dictates of Hildebrand), in which he asserts papal authority over earthly as well as spiritual rulers.
  • Revolt of the Earls: Three earls rebel against William I of England (William the Conqueror), in the last serious act of resistance to the Norman Conquest.
  • First Battle of Langensalza: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Saxon nobles and subjugates Saxony.
  • The Liao Dynasty version of the Buddhist Tripitaka is completed (approximate date).
  • Anund Gårdske is removed as king of Svealand and king Håkan the Red of Gothenland makes himself king of all Sweden.
  • The Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem from the Fatimids.
  • Lý dynasty forces under Lý Thường Kiệt defend Vietnam against invasion by Song Dynasty China.
  • The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo solves a border dispute with the Liao Dynasty by finding old diplomatic records; he argues Emperor Daozong of Liao's bluffs point for point during a meeting at Mt. Yongan (near modern Pingquan in Hebei), and reestablishes the Song's borders.

Births

  • June 9 – Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1137)
  • Saint Magnus Erlendsson (d. 1116 or 1117)
  • Adelaide del Vasto (d. 1118)
  • Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian (approximate date)

Deaths

  • June 10 – Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
  • August 2 – Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople
  • December 4 – Anno II, archbishop of Cologne
  • December 19 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
  • John Xiphilinus, Byzantine historian
  • Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Gwynedd
  • Peter Krešimir IV, King of Croatia

References