1017
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s |
| Years: | 1014 1015 1016 – 1017 – 1018 1019 1020 |
| 1017 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1017 MXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1770 |
| Armenian calendar | 466 ԹՎ ՆԿԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5767 |
| Bengali calendar | 424 |
| Berber calendar | 1967 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1561 |
| Burmese calendar | 379 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6525–6526 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3713 or 3653 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3714 or 3654 |
| Coptic calendar | 733–734 |
| Discordian calendar | 2183 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1009–1010 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4777–4778 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1073–1074 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 939–940 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4118–4119 |
| Holocene calendar | 11017 |
| Igbo calendar | 17–18 |
| Iranian calendar | 395–396 |
| Islamic calendar | 407–408 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōwa 6 / Kannin 1 (寛仁元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1017 MXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3350 |
| Minguo calendar | 895 before ROC 民前895年 |
| Seleucid era | 1328/1329 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1559–1560 |
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Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- c. May – Melus of Bari begins a rebellion, supported by Norman mercenaries. His Lombard forces are victorious in three pitched battles against the Byzantine Empire.
- c. July – Cnut the Great, King of England, marries Emma of Normandy, widow of the penultimate monarch, Æthelred.[1]
- Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.[1]
- Kiev burns. Possible date at which construction of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, is started.
- Abd ar-Rahman IV succeeds Sulayman as Umayyad caliph.
Asia
- Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion. During the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
Africa
- Sunni revolt of Kairouan against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.[2]
Births
- October 29 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher in Song Dynasty China (d. 1073)
Deaths
- July 6 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
- Abd ar-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph
- Eadric Streona, Earldorman of Mercia
- Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (b. 965)
- Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona, (b. 972)