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1021
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Calendar year
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1021
1021
upright=1.35|thumb|The Kingdom of Vaspurakan (908–1021)
Year 1021 (MXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
November – Emperor Henry II conducts his fourth Italian military campaign. He crosses the Brenner Pass with a 60,000-strong army, and reaches Verona, where he receives Lombard levies. Henry proceeds to Mantua and then into Ravenna, to spend Christmas there.
Abd al-Aziz al-Mansur, a grandson of the prominent Andalusian figure Almanzor begins his rule in Taifa of Valencia, a Moorish kingdom in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), ushering in a period of relative stability and prosperity that will last until 1061. Taifa of Valencia gained its independence from the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1010.
Africa
February 13 – On one of his habitual night rides in the outskirts of Cairo, the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah disappears, most likely assassinated by disaffected palace factions, apparently involving his sister, Sitt al-Mulk.Halm Heinz Heinz Halm Die Kalifen von Kairo: Die Fāṭimiden in Ägypten, 973–1074 de The Caliphs of Cairo: The Fatimids in Egypt, 973–1074 C. H. Beck Munich 2003 3-406-48654-1 Hj2bhVntO3EC yes 297–302
March 26 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of al-Hakim, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah. On the same day, al-Hakim's designated heir, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, is arrested in Damascus and brought to Egypt.Halm Heinz Die Kalifen von Kairo: Die Fāṭimiden in Ägypten, 973–1074 de The Caliphs of Cairo: The Fatimids in Egypt, 973–1074 C. H. Beck Munich 2003 3-406-48654-1 Hj2bhVntO3EC yes 307–308
The last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-Arabophone culture in Tripolitania (modern Libya) is seen.February 2021Bresc Henri Parte prima. Il regno normanno e il Mediterraneo La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age 2003 http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/b1462.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/b1462.pdf 2022-10-09 live January 17, 2012
Asia
Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni, Armenian king of Vaspurakan, surrenders his kingdom to the Byzantine Empire. In return, he receives Sebasteia and becomes governor of Cappadocia. Hewsen Robert H. Armenia: A Historical Atlas 2001 The University of Chicago Press 0-226-33228-4 126
Battle of Shirimni, the Byzantine Empire under Basil II defeats the Kingdom of Georgia under Giorgi I at Shirimni, at the Lake Palakazio, modern Lake Çıldır, Turkey
Hovhannes-Smbat III, King of the Armenian kingdom of Ani, is attacked by his younger brother Ashot IV, and loses much power to him, becoming concurrent king of outlying territories.
Emperor Rajendra Chola I extends his influence of the Chola Empire to the banks of the Ganges River (North India) and invades Bengal.
Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni appoints Malik Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore (modern Pakistan) the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.
The Chinese capital city of Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this year. Including all those present in the nine designated suburbs, the population is over a million people.
North America
Vikings known to be residing L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland (island).Based on dating of a felled tree using dendrochronology based on a timeline using the 993–994 carbon-14 spike. Kuitems Margot Wallace Birgitta L. Lindsay Charles Scifo Andrea Doeve Petra Jenkins Kevin Lindauer Susanne Erdil Pınar Ledger Paul M. Forbes Véronique Vermeeren Caroline October 20, 2021 Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 Nature 601 7893 388–391 10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8 34671168 8770119 239051036 1476-4687 Our result of AD 1021 for the cutting year constitutes the only secure calendar date for the presence of Europeans across the Atlantic before the voyages of Columbus [in 1492]. Moreover, the fact that our results, on three different trees, converge on the same year is notable and unexpected. This coincidence strongly suggests Norse activity at L’Anse aux Meadows in AD 1021. free
Births
December 8 – Wang Anshi, Chinese chancellor (d. 1086)
Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Byzantine empress (d. 1096)
Fujiwara no Kanshi, Japanese empress consort (d. 1102)
Wugunai, Chinese chieftain of the Wanyan tribe (d. 1074)
Deaths
February 13 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 985)
March 5 – Arnulf, French archbishop and illegitimate son of Lothair III
March 16 – Heribert, archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 970)
July 7 – Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Japanese bureaucrat (b. 944)
August 17 – Erkanbald, German abbot and archbishop
August 29 – Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 948)
Fujiwara no Yoshikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 957)
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, Fatimid scholar and philosopher
Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze
Liu Mei, Chinese official and general (approximate date)
Mac Cú Ceanain, king of Uí Díarmata (Ireland)
Shams al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Hamadan (Iran)
Trilochanapala, king of the Kabul Shani dynasty
References