1013

Calendar year December 2024 1013 1013 upright=1.35|thumb|King Sweyn Forkbeard (960–1014) Year 1013 (MXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe King Henry II of Germany signs a peace treaty at Merseburg with Duke Bolesław I the Brave) of Poland. As part of the treaty, Bolesław pays homage and recognizes Henry as his overlord in exchange for receiving the March of Lusatia (including the town of Bautzen) and the March of Meissen as fiefs. To seal their peace, Bolesław's son Mieszko II marries Richeza of Lotharingia (granddaughter of the late Emperor Otto II). Sulayman ibn al-Hakam reconquers the Caliphate of Córdoba in Al-Andalus (modern Spain) and deposes Hisham II. Sulayman becomes the fifth Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (until 1016). Winter – Henry II (anxious to be crowned as Holy Roman Emperor) mobilises a German expeditionary army at Augsburg, to begin his second Italian military campaign. England Summer – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard (accompanied by his son Cnut) sail from Denmark to attack England. Again London defends itself and the Vikings move elsewhere, plundering Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria. King Æthelred the Unready sends his sons Edward and Alfred to Normandy. Æthelred retreats to the Isle of Wight and follows them later into exile.Palmer Palmer 1992 December 25 – Sweyn Forkbeard takes control of the Danelaw and is proclaimed king of England in London. Some of the English provinces refuse to pay homage to Sweyn, who has no dynastic right to claim the throne.Palmer Palmer 1992Williams 2005 Asia September – Emperor Sanjō of Japan visits the home of influential statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga. December – Fujiwara no Masanobu, an officer of the guard of empress consort Kenshi of Japan, is killed by Fujiwara no Korekane and Michinaga orders the assassin imprisoned.Isaac Titsingh Titsingh Isaac 1834 Nihon Odai Ichiran, ou Annales des empereurs du Japon https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Paris Royal Asiatic Society 5850691 155 The Four Great Books of Song, the Song dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau which has been compiled since 1005, is completed in 1,000 volumes of 9.4 million written Chinese characters. Kaifeng, capital of China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Córdoba in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).Chandler 1989Rosenberg 2001 By topic Religion Æthelred II appoints Lyfing as archbishop of Canterbury in England. He restores Canterbury Cathedral, adding porticus towers and a massive westwork.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology, p. 214. Beauvais changes from a county to a bishopric (approximate date). Births July 18 – Hermann of Reichenau, German music theorist (d. 1054) August 15 – Teishi (Yōmeimon-in), Japanese empress consort (d. 1094) September 22 – Richeza (or Adelaide), queen of Hungary (d. 1075) Abu al-Walid al-Baji, Moorish scholar and poet (d. 1081) Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman (approximate date) Isaac Alfasi, Algerian Talmudist and posek (d. 1103) Deaths April 19 – Hisham II, caliph of Córdoba (Spain) (b. 966) June 5 – Al-Baqillani, Arab theologian, jurist and logician August – Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah, Jarrahid emir (b. 977) Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (b. 987) Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, Arab physician, "father of surgery", author of Al-Tasrif (b. 936) Giselbert I, count of Roussillon (Spain) (or 1004) Reginar IV, French nobleman (approximate date) References Sources Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth Tertius Chandler 1989 Edwin Mellen Press 978-0889462076 Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 Chronology of British History Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins London 48–49 978-0712656160 Largest Cities Through History Matt T. Rosenberg 2001 http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010218202126/http://geography.about.com/science/geography/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm February 18, 2001 live About.com Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/105 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 978-0304357307 105–106