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Calendar year December 2024 1016 the 2018 album by Alfred García 1016 (album)1016 (album) 1016 upright=1.35|thumb|Battle of Assandun: King Edmund II (left) is defeated by forces of Cnut the Great. Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson, confirming his status as king of Norway. April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside".Williams 2005 Summer – Battle of Brentford (near London): Edmund Ironside defeats the Danes under King Cnut.Palmer Palmer 1992 July 6 – Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley.Bradbury 2004 October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of Wessex.Williams 2005 November 30 – Edmund II dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.Williams 2005 The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardinia, in particular Porto Torres, and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Dénia, Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī.Benvenuti 1985 Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.Kleinhenz 2010 Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence. Arabian Empire January 7 – Fath al-Qal'i, governor of the Citadel of Aleppo, revolts against Emir Mansur ibn Lu'lu', forcing him to flee. Fath accepts an agreement with Salih ibn Mirdas and takes control of Aleppo. Asia March 10 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan abdicates the throne after a 5-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old cousin Go-Ichijō as the 68th emperor of Japan. Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed regent. Japanese poet Koshikibu no Naishi (lady-in-waiting to Dowager Empress Shōshi) and her husband Fujiwara no Kiminari (son of Michinaga) have a son, but the couple is not accepted because of the social gap between them.Mypaedia Koshikibu no Naishi 2007 Hitachi Systems & Services. Sriwijayan forces attack the Kingdom of Mataram, killing king Dharmawangsa and 6 of his family members.van der Linde Herald Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire 2024 Monsoon Books Private, Limited 978-1-915310-28-6 1st New York Births April 3 – Xing Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty. (d. 1055) June 9 – Deokjong, ruler of Goryeo (Korea). (d. 1034) July 25 – Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland. (d. 1058) August 24 – Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress. (d. 1039) October 28 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. (d. 1056) Cao, empress and regent of Song dynasty China. (d. 1079) Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II of England. (d. 1057) Không Lộ, Vietnamese Zen master (approximate date). Minamoto no Tsunenobu, Japanese nobleman. (d. 1097) Svein Knutsson, king of Norway. (d. 1035) Yan Vyshatich, Kievan nobleman. (d. 1106) Deaths April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, king of England. May 22 – Jovan Vladimir, Serbian prince. (b. 990) September 6 – Fujiwara no Bokushi, great-grandmother of the Emperor of Japan October 18. Ælfric of Hampshire, English nobleman. Eadnoth the Younger, bishop of Dorchester in England. Ulfcytel Snillingr, English nobleman. November 30 – Edmund II "Ironside", king of England. Badis ibn Mansur, Muslim emir of the Zirid dynasty. Henry II "the Good", count of Stade. (b. 946) Liu Chenggui, official of Song dynasty China. (b. 951) Simeon of Mantua, Armenian Benedictine monk. Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, caliph of Córdoba. Uhtred the Bold, English nobleman. Wulfgar of Abingdon, English abbot. Dharmawangsa, king of Mataram. References Sources Ambraseys N. Nicholas Ambraseys 2009 Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=FzXSBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT713 First Cambridge University Press 259, 260 978-0521872928 Benvenuti Gino Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia 1985 Newton & Compton Editori Rome 978-8882895297 33 Italian Kleinhenz Christopher Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia 2010 Routledge 1 978-0415939294 https://books.google.com/books?id=1piMMqjAf1MC 95 Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 Chronology of British History Century Ltd / Barrie & Jenkins London 48–49 978-0712656160 Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/105 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 978-0304357307 105–106 Bradbury Jim The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare 2004 0-415-22126-9