1079

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1079 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1079 MLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1832
Armenian calendar	528 ԹՎ ՇԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5829
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)
Julian calendar	1079 MLXXIX
Korean calendar	3412
Minguo calendar	833 before ROC 民前833年
Seleucid era	1390/1391 AG
Thai solar calendar	1621–1622

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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 to be exactly 365.24219858156 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. 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.