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1079
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1079 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1079
MLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita |
1832 |
| Armenian calendar |
528
ԹՎ ՇԻԸ |
| Chinese calendar |
3775 – 3776
戊午 – 己未 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1071 – 1072 |
| Hebrew calendar |
4839 – 4840 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1134 – 1135 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1001 – 1002 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4180 – 4181 |
| Iranian calendar |
457 – 458 |
| Islamic calendar |
471 – 472 |
Events
- Persian astronomer, Omar Khayyám, computed the length of the year as 365.24219858156 days which has been the most accurate calculation of old times. Khayyam also, in Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produced a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions.
- Murder of Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów (pol. Stanisław ze Szczepanowa) by Polish King Bolesław II the Bold
- Halsten and Ingold I succeed Haakon the Red in Sweden.
- Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
- William I of England establishes the New Forest.
- Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos.
- Abbess Hildegarde of St. Ruprechtsberg makes the first surviving reference to the use of hops in brewing. (or 1067? - Hildegard of Bingen/Rupertsberg lived from 1098-1179. The reference attributed to her cannot be 1067.)
Births
- August 8 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (d. 1142)
- Kilij Arslan I
Deaths
- April 11 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, bishop of Krakow
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