1059

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s 1030s 1040s – 1050s – 1060s 1070s 1080s
Years:	1056 1057 1058 – 1059 – 1060 1061 1062

1059 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1059 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1059 MLIX
Ab urbe condita	1812
Armenian calendar	508 ԹՎ ՇԸ
Assyrian calendar	5809
Bengali calendar	466
Berber calendar	2009
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1603
Burmese calendar	421
Byzantine calendar	6567–6568
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3755 or 3695 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3756 or 3696
Coptic calendar	775–776
Discordian calendar	2225
Ethiopian calendar	1051–1052
Hebrew calendar	4819–4820
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1115–1116
- Shaka Samvat	981–982
- Kali Yuga	4160–4161
Holocene calendar	11059
Igbo calendar	59–60
Iranian calendar	437–438
Islamic calendar	450–451
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 2 (康平２年)
Julian calendar	1059 MLIX
Korean calendar	3392
Minguo calendar	853 before ROC 民前853年
Seleucid era	1370/1371 AG
Thai solar calendar	1601–1602

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Year 1059 (MLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 24 – Pope Nicholas II succeeds Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope, installed in Rome in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
April 13 – Pope Nicholas II, with the agreement of the Lateran Council, issues the papal bull In nomine Domini making the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the papal conclave for the election of popes.
August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.
November 22 – Isaac I Komnenos resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his successor.
Muhammad bin Dawud, known as Alp Arslan, succeeds his father Chaghri Beg as governor of Khorasan.
Peter Krešimir IV is crowned King of Croatia and Dalmatia.