1018
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s |
| Years: | 1015 1016 1017 – 1018 – 1019 1020 1021 |
| 1018 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1018 MXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1771 |
| Armenian calendar | 467 ԹՎ ՆԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5768 |
| Bengali calendar | 425 |
| Berber calendar | 1968 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1562 |
| Burmese calendar | 380 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6526–6527 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3714 or 3654 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3715 or 3655 |
| Coptic calendar | 734–735 |
| Discordian calendar | 2184 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1010–1011 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4778–4779 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1074–1075 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 940–941 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4119–4120 |
| Holocene calendar | 11018 |
| Igbo calendar | 18–19 |
| Iranian calendar | 396–397 |
| Islamic calendar | 408–409 |
| Japanese calendar | Kannin 2 (寛仁２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1018 MXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3351 |
| Minguo calendar | 894 before ROC 民前894年 |
| Seleucid era | 1329/1330 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1560–1561 |
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Year 1018 (MXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (liNk will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- December – Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire) invades Goryeo.
- A Chola dynasty army invades Lanka with 150,000 troops, the largest amphibious invasion force in history to this date.
Europe
- January 30 – The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, ending the German–Polish War (1002–1018).
- July 22–23 – Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, defeats Yaroslav the Wise in the Battle of the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novogrod, abandoning Kiev.
- July 29 – Dirk III, Count of Holland, defeats an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
- August – Leader of the remaining Bulgarian resistance, Ivats, is treacherously blinded and captured by strategos Eustathios Daphnomeles, confirming Bulgaria's position as part of the Byzantine Empire.
- August 14 – Bolesław accepts the surrender of Kiev by the Pechenegs. He reinstates Sviatopolk as Grand Prince of Kiev.
- c. October? – In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are decisively defeated by the Byzantine army led by the Catepan Basil Boioannes.[1]
- Probable date
- Battle of Carham: Malcolm II of Scotland and Owen the Bald of Strathclyde are victorious over Eadwulf Cudel, Earl of Bamburgh, confirming Scottish dominance over Lothian.
- Cnut succeeds his brother Harald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.[2]
By topic
Religion
- Buckfast Abbey is founded.
- The city of Koblenz is given to the archbishop of Trier.
Births
- April 10 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier (d. 1092)
- Harthacnut, King of Denmark (d. 1042)
- Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian
Deaths
- June 23 – Margrave Henry I of Austria
- Aeddan ap Blegywryd, King of Gwynedd
- Harald II of Denmark
References
- ↑ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 0-415-93930-5.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.