1079
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1040s 1050s 1060s – 1070s – 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1076 1077 1078 – 1079 – 1080 1081 1082 |
| 1079 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1079 MLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1832 |
| Armenian calendar | 528 ԹՎ ՇԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5829 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −765 – −764 |
| Bengali calendar | 486 |
| Berber calendar | 2029 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Will. 1 – 14 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1623 |
| Burmese calendar | 441 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6587–6588 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3775 or 3715 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3776 or 3716 |
| Coptic calendar | 795–796 |
| Discordian calendar | 2245 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1071–1072 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4839–4840 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1135–1136 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1001–1002 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4180–4181 |
| Holocene calendar | 11079 |
| Igbo calendar | 79–80 |
| Iranian calendar | 457–458 |
| Islamic calendar | 471–472 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōryaku 3 (承暦３年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1079 MLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3412 |
| Minguo calendar | 833 before ROC 民前833年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1622 |
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Year 1079 (MLXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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
- Upon the death of Håkan the Red, Halsten returns as king of Sweden, jointly with his brother Inge the Elder.
- Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
- William I of England establishes the New Forest.
- Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos.
Births
- August 8 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher (d. 1142)
Deaths
- April 11 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, bishop of Kraków
- Håkan the Red, king of Gothenland since 1070 and king of Sweden since 1075
References
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