1061
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1030s 1040s 1050s – 1060s – 1070s 1080s 1090s |
| Years: | 1058 1059 1060 – 1061 – 1062 1063 1064 |
| 1061 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1061 MLXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1814 |
| Armenian calendar | 510 ԹՎ ՇԺ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5811 |
| Bengali calendar | 468 |
| Berber calendar | 2011 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1605 |
| Burmese calendar | 423 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6569–6570 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3757 or 3697 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3758 or 3698 |
| Coptic calendar | 777–778 |
| Discordian calendar | 2227 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1053–1054 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4821–4822 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1117–1118 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 983–984 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4162–4163 |
| Holocene calendar | 11061 |
| Igbo calendar | 61–62 |
| Iranian calendar | 439–440 |
| Islamic calendar | 452–453 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōhei 4 (康平４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1061 MLXI |
| Korean calendar | 3394 |
| Minguo calendar | 851 before ROC 民前851年 |
| Seleucid era | 1372/1373 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1603–1604 |
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Year 1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January – Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished from Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
- October 1 – Pope Alexander II succeeds Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
- The Normans conquer Messina in Sicily.
- Erection of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
- Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
- Most of West Frisia (later part of the county of Holland) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
- Estonians destroy the Russian fortification of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.
Africa
- Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.
Births
Deaths
- January 28 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
- July 18 or July 27 – Pope Nicholas II