1020s
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 990s 1000s 1010s – 1020s – 1030s 1040s 1050s |
| Years: | 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
This is a list of events occurring in the 1020s, ordered by year.
Contents
- 1020
- 1021
- 1022
- 1023
- 1024
- 1025
- 1026
- 1027
- 1028
- 1029
1020
By place
Asia
- Goryeo and the Liao Dynasty exchange embassies following a seven-year territorial dispute.
- The massive Kandariya Mahadeva Hindu Temple is completed in the Chandela capital of Khajuraho.
Europe
- The city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded.
- Henry II of Germany conducts his third Italian military campaign .
- Canute the Great codifies the laws of England.
1021
By place
Africa
- Last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-arabophone culture in Tripolitania, Libya.[1]
Europe
- The Moorish kingdom of Valencia becomes independent from the Ummayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
Asia
- Seneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan surrenders his kingdom to the Byzantine Empire.
- Mahmud appoints Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.
- A Khitan princess is sent to marry into the Goryeo royal family, securing ties between the Koreans and the Liao Dynasty.
- The Song Dynasty 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.
- The Chola Empire invades Bengal.
1022
By place
Europe
- Upon the death of Olof Skötkonung, he is succeeded by his son Anund Jakob as king of Sweden.
Asia
- Al-Muizz ibn Badis begins to rule Ifriqiya in his own right.
- The Song Dynasty Chinese military has one million registered soldiers, an increase since the turn of the 11th century when the Song military only had nine hundred thousand soldiers.
By topic
Religion
- Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury, is received at Rome.
- Several Catharists are killed in Toulouse.
- The Synod of Pavia issues decrees against non-celibate clergy and against simony.
- Robert II the Pious burns some canons of St. Croix in Orléans, for holding that the world is inherently evil.
1023
By place
Europe
- The Judge-Governor of Seville takes advantage of the disintegration of the Caliphate of Córdoba, and seizes power as Abbad I, thus founding the Abbadid dynasty.
- Abd ar-Rahman V is proclaimed Caliph at Córdoba.
Asia
- The Ghaznavid Empire occupies Transoxiana.
Africa
- Soon after returning from Mecca, the Tarsina king of Zanata, a mountain kingdom between Algeria and Morocco, is killed in battle.
1024
By place
Europe
- The Salian Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire is founded by Conrad II.
- April 19 – Pope John XIX succeeds Pope Benedict VIII (his brother) as the 144th pope.
- After several years in the Peninsula, Roger of Toeni, a Norman knight, leaves the battlefields of the Ebro Vally and heads back to France. It ends what historians have described as a early crusade.[2]
Asia
- The world's first paper-printed money, which later greatly benefits the economy of the Song Dynasty, originates in the Sichuan province of China.
- Emperor Mahmud of Ghazni sacks the Hindu religious center of Somnath, slaughtering over 50,000 people and carrying off vast amounts of treasure.
1025
By place
Europe
- April 18 – Bolesław I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland.
- Failure of the North African Zirid dynasty's attempts to retake Sicily.[3]
- Byzantines abduct Arabs Messina before the death of Emperor Basil II.
Asia
- Srivijaya, a partly Buddhist kingdom based in Sumatra, is attacked by the Chola Empire of southern India in a dispute over trading rights in South-east Asia. It survives, but declines in importance.
- Constantine VIII succeeds his brother Basil II as Byzantine Emperor.
1026
By place
Europe
- Aribert (archbishop of Milan), crowns Conrad II King of Italy.
- Pietro Barbolano becomes Doge of Venice.
- Henry the black is made Henry VI, Duke of Bavaria by his father, Conrad II.
- The Battle of the Helgeå is fought off the coast of Sweden: naval forces of Cnut the Great's North Sea Empire defeat the combined Swedish and Norwegian royal fleets.[4]
Asia
- A Zubu revolt against the Liao Dynasty is suppressed, with the Zubu forced to pay an annual tribute.
1027
By place
Europe
- March 26 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor.
- May 14 – Henry I is crowned king of France at Reims Cathedral.
- approx. date – Ealdred becomes abbot of Tavistock in England.
Asia
- August 16 – Bagrat IV becomes king of Georgia on the death of his father. He will hold the throne until his own death in 1072.
- Civil war begins in Japan.
- This is the first year of the first rabqung (60-year) cycle started in the Tibetan calendar.
- As recorded in the Song Shi, the Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Yan Su reinvents the 3rd-century South Pointing Chariot, a mechanical-driven compass vehicle.
- Publication of The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sufficientia), a comprehensive scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Avicenna (Abū ʿAlī ibn Sīnā).[5]
1028
By place
Europe
- April 14 – Henry III, son of Conrad II, is elected king of the Germans.
- King Sancho III of Navarre conquers Castile.
- Cnut becomes King of Norway
Byzantine Empire
- November 12 – Dying Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire marries his daughter Zoe of Byzantium to his chosen heir Romanus Argyrus.
- November 15 – Romanus Argyrus becomes Eastern Roman Emperor as Romanus III.
1029
Significant people
Births
Deaths
References
- ↑ Bresc, Henri (2003). La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Boissonade, B. "Les premières croisades françaises en Espagne. Normands, Gascons, Aquitains et Bourguignons (1018-1032)". Bulletin Hispanique 36 (1): 5–28.
- ↑ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.50.
- ↑ Dated 1025 by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which gives victory to Sweden.
- ↑ Goodman, Lenn Evan (1992). Avicenna. London: Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 0-415-01929-X.
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