1048

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s 1020s 1030s – 1040s – 1050s 1060s 1070s
Years:	1045 1046 1047 – 1048 – 1049 1050 1051

1048 by topic
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The year 1048 AD includes the following events:

Events

The city of Oslo is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.
January 30—Protestantism: The villagers around today´s Baden-Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiant to the local bishop, later,in a move that would not be seen before the Protestant Reformation he is also elected pope by acclamatio, just to die that same day, it is rumored that Ildebrando di Soana heard of the acclamatio and used it later to get elected himself as Pope Gregory VII.
July 16—Pope Benedict IX is driven from Rome, ending his third and final pontificate.
July 17—Pope Damasus II succeeds Pope Benedict IX as the 151st pope.
September 10 or 18 – Battle of Kapetrou: Seljuks defeat a force of Byzantines and Georgians.

May 18—Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1123)
May 25—Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1118)
June 16—Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Persian Sufi and Sufie writer