1017

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020
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1017 by topic
Leaders
Political entities State leaders Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
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1017 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 1017
MXVII

Ab urbe condita 1770

Armenian calendar 466
ԹՎ ՆԿԶ

Assyrian calendar 5767

Balinese saka calendar 938–939

Bengali calendar 423–424

Berber calendar 1967

English Regnal year N/A

Buddhist calendar 1561

Burmese calendar 379

Byzantine calendar 6525–6526

Chinese calendar 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3714 or 3507
— to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3715 or 3508

Coptic calendar 733–734

Discordian calendar 2183

Ethiopian calendar 1009–1010

Hebrew calendar 4777–4778

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1073–1074

- Shaka Samvat 938–939

- Kali Yuga 4117–4118

Holocene calendar 11017

Igbo calendar 17–18

Iranian calendar 395–396

Islamic calendar 407–408

Japanese calendar Chōwa 6 / Kannin 1
(寛仁元年)

Javanese calendar 919–920

Julian calendar 1017
MXVII

Korean calendar 3350

Minguo calendar 895 before ROC
民前895年

Nanakshahi calendar −451

Seleucid era 1328/1329 AG

Thai solar calendar 1559–1560

Tibetan calendar 阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1143 or 762 or −10
— to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1144 or 763 or −9

Sculpture of Rajendra I (r. 1014–1044)

Year 1017 (MXVII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

Europe

Summer – Melus of Bari, a Lombard nobleman, revolts and is supported by Norman mercenaries at Capua. He marches into Apulia to catch the Byzantine army off-guard. Melus defeats the Byzantines on the banks of the Fortore River and ravages the territory in Apulia.
Winter – Emperor Basil II ("the Bulgar Slayer") replaces Leo Tornikios with the new catapan Basil Boioannes and sends him reinforcements (including a detachment of the elite Varangian Guard) from Constantinople.

England

January 6 – Cnut ("the Great") is crowned king of England. In July he marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Æthelred the Unready, securing his ties with Normandy.^[1]
Cnut divides England into four earldoms: Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.^[1]

Arabian Empire

Summer – Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion, during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Africa

The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.^[2]

Asia

March – Fujiwara no Michinaga passes the title of regent of Japan (Sesshō) to his eldest son Fujiwara no Yorimichi.
September
- Prince Atsuakira of Japan, eldest son of ex-Emperor Sanjō, having been struck by a skin disease and under intense pressure from Michinaga, resigns the title of Crown Prince in favour of his younger brother, Prince Atsunaga ^[3] who marries Fujiwara no Kanshi, daughter of Michinaga.
- Michinaga makes a pilgrimage to the Iwashimizu Shrine in Japan accompanied by many courtiers. The travelers divide themselves amongst 15 boats for a floating trip down the Yotogawa River. One of the vessels overturns and more than 30 people lose their lives.^[3]
December 24 – Michinaga is granted the honorary title Daijō-daijin of Japan.
Rajendra I, ruler of the Chola dynasty (in modern India), conquers Sri Lanka and annexes the island.^[4]

By topic

Religion

Construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv is started (approximate date).

Births

October 28 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)^[5]
Ahimaaz ben Paltiel, Italian-Jewish liturgical poet (d. 1060)
Bermudo III (or Vermudo), king of León (approximate date)
Floris I, count of Friesland west of the Vlie (approximate date)
Ramanuja, Indian Sri Vaishnavism philosopher (d. 1137)
Vikramabahu (Kassapa VI), king of Sri Lanka (d. 1041)
Zhou Dunyi, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1073)

Deaths

February 5 – Sancho García, count of Castile
June 5 – Sanjō, ex-emperor of Japan (b. 976)
June 22 – Leo Passianos, Byzantine general
July 6 – Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (b. 942)
September 18 – Henry of Schweinfurt, German nobleman
October 6 – Wang Dan, Chinese Grand Chancellor
Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia
Eadwig Ætheling, son of Æthelred II
Elvira of Castile, queen consort of León
Emnilda, duchess consort of Poland
Fujiwara no Junshi, Japanese empress (b. 957)
Judith of Brittany, duchess of Normandy (b. 982)
Ma'mun II, Ma'munid ruler of Khwarezm
Ramon Borrell, count of Barcelona (b. 972)
Renaud of Vendôme, French nobleman

References

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd; Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0712656160.
^ Meynier 2010.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, Isaac (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran, ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 156–7. OCLC 5850691.
^ Agnihotri 2010.
^ "Henry III – Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 17, 2018.

Sources

Agnihotri, V. K. (2010). "South India". Indian History with Objective Questions and Historical Maps (26 ed.). Allied Publishers. p. 59. ISBN 978-8184243406.

Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) (in French). Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 978-2707152312.

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