1010

Calendar year February 2011 1010 1010 Year 1010 (MX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Africa The Nile river in Egypt freezes over.Lamb 2012 Egyptian military commander Zar'ah ibn Isa ibn Nasturus appointed Vizier of Egypt. Asia Emperor Lý Thái Tổ of the Lý dynasty moved the capital from Hoa Lư to Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi).Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 80 Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao dynasty, and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong. Song Zhun of Song dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village (the atlas took 39 years to complete). In the Chola dynasty of southern India, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn. Japan January – Fujiwara no Kenshi (daughter of Michinaga) is married to the imperial heir Crown Prince Okisada. February 14 – On the death of Fujiwara no Korechika his daughter, the poet Fujiwara no Chikako, becomes a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi. Emperor Ichijō wants to retire – the influential statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga supports Crown Prince Okisada (now his son-in-law), who will be the successor, but the emperor prefers his eldest son by the late Empress Teishi, Prince Atsuyasu, who has been raised by Empress Shōshi, who also supports her stepson, leading to conflict at court. American Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date). Europe June 2 – Fitna of al-Andalus – Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr: The Caliphate of Córdoba is defeated. Allied to Muslim rebels, Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona sacks Córdoba,Boissonade 1934 and Hisham II the Nephast is restored as Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, succeeding Muhammad II al-Mahdi. The Russian city of Yaroslavl is founded, as an outpost of the principality of Rostov Veliky. The fortified city of Fiesole in Italy is captured and destroyed by the people of nearby Florence.Bokody Péter 2022 Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.12768 Renaissance Studies en 36 4 573 10.1111/rest.12768 0269-1213 Swedish king Olof Skötkonung gives city rights to Sigtuna.Barbara Højlund & Frederik Schildt Nabe-Nielsen. "Sigtuna in Sweden". vikingeskibsmuseet.dk. Retrieved August 20, 2025. By topic Architecture The construction of 217 ft (66 m) tall Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur (a city now in Tamil Nadu, India) is completed during the Chola dynasty, and at about this time the wall painting Rajaraja I and His Teacher Literature March 8 – Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), which will be regarded as the national epic of the greater Iranian culture. Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese (approximate date). Beowulf is written anonymously in Old English (approximate date). Technology Eilmer of Malmesbury in England attempts flight in a glider of his own construction. Births May 30 – Zhao Zhen, Emperor Renzong of the Song dynasty (d. 1063) Adalbero, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date) Adalbero III of Luxembourg, German nobleman (d. 1072) Akkadevi, princess of the Chalukya dynasty (d. 1064) Anno II, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date) Arialdo, Italian nobleman and deacon (approximate date) Benno, bishop of Meissen (approximate date) Eberhard, archbishop of Trier (approximate date) Eleanor of Normandy, countess of Flanders (d. 1077) Gebhard, archbishop of Salzburg (approximate date) Gomes Echigues, Portuguese knight and governor (d. 1065) Honorius II, antipope of the Catholic Church (approximate date) John V of Gaeta, Italian nobleman (approximate date) Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (d. 1041) Odo (or Eudes), Gascon nobleman (approximate date) Otloh of Sankt Emmeram, German monk (approximate date) Siegfried I, German nobleman (approximate date) Tunka Manin, ruler of the Ghana Empire (d. 1078) Deaths February 14 – Fujiwara no Korechika, Japanese nobleman (b. 974) Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot and scholar (approximate date) Abu'l-Nasr Muhammad, Farighunid ruler (approximate date) Aimoin, French monk and chronicler (approximate date) Aisha, Andalusian poet and writer (approximate date) Cathal mac Conchobar mac Taidg, king of Connacht Ermengol I (or Armengol), count of Urgell (b. 974) John Kourkouas, Byzantine catepan (approximate date) Maelsuthan Ua Cerbhail, Irish advisor and chronicler Vijayanandi, Indian mathematician (approximate date) References Sources Boissonade B. Les premières croisades françaises en Espagne. Normands, Gascons, Aquitains et Bourguignons (1018-1032) Bulletin Hispanique 1934 36 1 5–28 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hispa_0007-4640_1934_num_36_1_2607 10.3406/hispa.1934.2607 Lamb H. H. 2012 1977 Climate: Present, Past and Future: Climatic History and the Future 2 Methuen and Co. / Routledge London 978-0415682237 Ngô Sĩ Liên http://thuvienso.bvu.edu.vn/bitstream/TVDHBRVT/4546/1/Dai%20viet%20su%20ky%20toan%20thu.PDF Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Basic Annals 1993 Social Science Publishing House Nội các quan bản Hanoi 1993 vi II, Kỷ nhà Lý: Thái Tổ Hoàng Đế 2025-06-20